“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 …
Mrs. Beeton Goes to India
English women going out to colonial India packed cookbooks in their steamer trunks. Among the many possible tomes available, Mrs. …
Pope on Posset, Alexander That Is
Rumored to be from the pen of Alexander Pope, the following recipe for “East-Indian style posset” in poetic form illustrates …
Idylls of Cuisine #27
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Old Cookbooks Online — Some New Goodies
165 of Virginia Tech’s Newman Library’s collection of thousands of rare and antique cookbooks just went digital. Most of the …
Cooking for the British Raj: The Englishwoman’s Dilemma
The British Raj, not just restricted to India but also to parts of East Africa, embodied the male-dominant culture of …
