Pie in the Sky: A Review of Janet Clarkson’s “Pie: A Global History”
You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll …
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Eggplant: An Exploration (Part I)
Eggplant is startling in its morphologic versatility and variety of taste possibilities. If you only regard it as that plump …
Idylls of Cuisine #7
[A photograph and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
West African Origins of Southern Cooking
Nearly all writers on Southern food agree that African slaves influenced the evolution of Southern food. Here’s a video of …
A Whiff of the Middle Ages
The beefy smell of pumpkin soup and wood smoke nudged its way into the night air. It was just before …
