The Washington Post on Best Cookbooks (Gifts) of 2008
An interesting and REAL list (for the most part) of cookbooks for serious and not-so-serious home cooks. Some of the …
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Feast of the Seven Fishes (La Festa dei Sette Pesci)
If you like comic books, graphic novels, and cartoons, you’ll love Feast of the Seven Fishes: The Collected Comic Strip …
A Symbol of the Season
Many years ago, I read A Precocious Autobiography, by Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. One passage moved me to tears and …
Christmas Menu 1890 from Godey’s Lady’s Book
Lately, I’ve been “getting it” that the Victorian era played a tremendously important role in Western history. Think of Beatrix …
Codfish Tales and Codfish Bones: Woe is Us
Glo’ster girls they have no combs, Heave away, heave away! They comb their hair with codfish bones, We’re bound for …
Christmas in the White House: President Benjamin Harrison’s Carlsbad Wafers and His 1890 Christmas Dinner
President Benjamin Harrison, being a card-carrying participant of the Gilded Age, and his wife Caroline Scott Harrison served an unusual …
BREAKING: Vilsack is the New Agriculture Secretary
Not a real victory for the petition signers and Michael Pollan advocates … Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor. In the …
Secretary of Agriculture: Still moot but …
The Associated Press released the following names on December 16, 2008 as contenders for President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture. …
MILK: That Old White Magic
[Note: Ironically, I just came across this December 15, 2008 NPR interview with Anne Mendelson: "A Culinary History of Milk …
Some Notable Food Books of 2008
There are food books and there are food books. The following list contains no whispers from FoodTV icons or other …
