Safari Cooking: The Cook (III)
Unlike John Tinney McCutcheon, who in spite of holding attitudes typical of the times, managed to convey his admiration of …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Idylls of Cuisine #10
[A photograph and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
Cape Malay Cooking
A Cape Malay Cooking Safari: A little history and a scene-setting food shopping tour, then comes the food and a …
Safari Cooking: The Cook (II)
In John Tinney McCutcheon’s book, In Africa: Hunting Adventures in Big Game Country (1910), he wrote the following words about an …
Safari Cooking: The Cook (I)
1 Cook 35 (rupees) per month* That’s the salary paid to native/local cooks, those picked to feed the wealthy white …
Safari Cooking: Equipment
Animal rights — forget it. In the days of the Great White Hunters, no way. Writers and hunters both romanced …
Michael Ruhlman’s “Ratio”
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed …
Idylls of Cuisine #9
[A photograph and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
African Cookbook Project
Fran Osseo-Asare deserves a big hand for all her work on raising awareness of African cooking in the United States. …
Eggplant, Out of Africa
Known in Britain by 1587, the “Guinea squash,” as people originally called it, white, shaped like an egg, eventually became …
