Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments
Moonlight, shadows, and frangipani fluttering in air rich with the smell of curry — many people today might harbor such …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
A Chronology of Cooks, in the British Raj
Food certainly gave us a way not simply of ordering a week or a day but of living inside history, …
Supping in British India
As the wife of the eighth viceroy-to-India, and like many privileged women of her day, Harriet Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of …
Summer Fare, or, Steamroller Chicken
Today, when the throbbing heat of a summer day might mean grabbing a salad at the local deli, it is …
Idylls of Cuisine #26
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Wrestling with Risotto
Learn to Make Risotto with Biba Caggiano:
The Man Who Drew Too Much
As a writer for Gourmet magazine in its early years, illustrator and engraver Samuel Chamberlain introduced Americans to European food, …
Elizabeth Romer’s Chronicle of Tuscan Agriculture
Contemplating the impact of Food Network’s publishing juggernaut on the current food scene in America, I find myself turning backwards, …
The Hermetic Lady in the Palazzo: Marlena de Blasi
Cookbook author and memoirist Marlena de Blasi does not seek the limelight, preferring instead to write her books in the …
Deep Roots: A Love Note to the Lowly Carrot
A dish of carrot hastily cooked may still have soil uncleaned off the vegetable. ~~ Chinese Proverb Except for the …
