Idylls of Cuisine #33
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] For more on pumpkins, see my post “More Than Meets the Pie.”
Monthly Archives: October 2009
If Salvador Dalí Dreamed Ferran Adrià
In honor of Gourmet magazine of dear and cherished memory (and my Danish father-in-law, who would have scoffed loudly and …
A Rogue’s Gallery: The Many Faces of Polenta
With apologies to Shakespeare and Romeo & Juliet and all lovers of the same: What’s in a name? That which …
When Life Gives You Lemons, Dream of Sorrento
Lemons — the smell of them teases out dreams of sunny days and slower ways, of light twisting through splintery …
R.I.P. Gourmet
My heart broke a little when Julia Child died in August 2004. The end of an era and all that. …
Rose Petal Honeys
Rose Petal Honey, the last stop on the honey journey, for the moment. Available widely on the Internet, Rose Petal …
Idylls of Cuisine #32
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Halloween: Cake and Candles
Prolific nineteenth-century domestic scientist, Sarah Tyson Hetson Rorer, in her Home Games and Parties (1898, p. 139), wrote about some …
The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook
Many, many cookbooks focus on cooking with honey. The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking …
A Honey of a Bibliography
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. ~~Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees Here are some of the many resources I’ve relied …
