France Encore
France bewitches. Burgundy. Normandy. The Loire Valley. The French Alps. Provence. All sublime. But the besotted dream most of returning …
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Classic French Cookbooks from the 20th Century (Hint: NOT Julia)
Richard Olney’s Simple French Food and Mireille Johnston’s Cuisine of the Rose: Classical French Cooking from Burgundy and Lyonnais both …
Idylls of Cuisine #4
[A photograph and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
Baking in Colonial Virginia
Lara Templin, an historical interpreter at Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, demonstrates how people baked bread over 400 years ago, in …
“The White (Wo)Man’s Burden”: Household Management in the Colonies (With Bibliography)
European women who lived in nineteenth- and twentieth-century foreign outposts sought authoritative voices to guide them through the challenges of …
Cooking: The Theory, with a Little Help from Chimps
Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are. ~~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ~~ As Alice …
The Garden of Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Sometimes I close my eyes and just remember, remember being in ___ [name of place] and then it was just …
Idylls of Cuisine #3
[A photograph and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
