A Pantry in Africa
Maze-like unpaved streets and red-mud brick buildings lend the aura of a rural village to the West African metropolis. Women …
Monthly Archives: February 2009
A Cook in Colonial Africa
Esa nearly drops the wine bottle, all because of colonial British ideas about propriety in cooking and dining. That’s from …
A Village in Africa
It didn’t take long for the red dust to coat the white Nissan Patrol 4WD like the sugar crust on …
Food History Isn’t Just Old Stuff
Convenience in the kitchen, a state of affairs that most of our great-grandmothers would have killed for, snuck into food …
Idylls of Cuisine #1*
[*A picture is worth a thousand words. Hence the beginning of a new weekly Gherkins & Tomatoes feature, a photograph …
“Food,” by John Updike
The other day I discovered a delightful book, small, about the size of a deck of Tarot cards, adorned with …
Carnevale Cometh: Ricotta and Fritters, Oh My!
Fritters and Carnevale, lumped together like ham and eggs, mashed potatoes and gravy, risi e bisi, rice and beans. Ricotta …
George Washington’s Family Cookbooks
Martha Washington’s cookbook tells a tale, one that really needs no elaboration: George went through life toothless. Recipes for soft …
Carnevale Cometh: Calzone
What of calzone? And its cousin panzerotti? As cousins will often do, both look alike, except for size. And both …
Carnevale Cometh: Cenci By Any Other Name Would Taste as Sweet …
Hereupon, a whole host of absurd figures surrounded him, pretending to sympathize in his mishap. Clowns and party-colored harlequins; orang-outangs; …
