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 …
A Story of Shrimp
Every night the roar of that “hog” outside announced her, foretelling the laughing and the clunk-clunk of feet plodding upstairs …
The Cross Creek of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
No longer a well-known writer, Pulitzer-Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserves more attention. Author of the popular coming-of-age novel, The …
Life, Love, and Lost Raviolis
The food memoir seemingly pops out everywhere these days. It’s the hot new genre in writing. Some authors coin a …
Ham and Eggs
Omne vivum ex ovo. “All life comes from an egg.” –Latin Proverb– Eggs and Easter go together like…ham and eggs? …
Idylls of Cuisine #6
[A photograph and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
