“First Catch Your Hare”: A Brief Meditation on Written Recipes, Part I
And what is a recipe but a buffer against disorder? A recipe allows us to anticipate, to meld the past …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Idylls of Cuisine #28
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Coming Up: New Food Memoirs & Other Treats
Food memoirs form just one of many research items on the list of materials used by culinary historians. In rounding …
“Curry & Rice” on Forty Plates: The British Raj Encore
In 1859, George Francklin Atkinson, a captain of the Bengal Engineers and a writer of some imagination as well as …
Weihenstephan, the Oldest Brewery in the World (?)
Make that the oldest brewery still standing (and producing) in the world, never mind that the oldest brewery is actually …
