Dig for Victory! Locavorism in Eons Past
Looking at the past almost always calls up that old adage: “There’s nothing new under the sun.”* Take locavorism’s wartime …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg: Slideshow
Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg collections, a parade of eighteenth-century goodies. Note the lamb’s head on the end …
Notes from Haiti: Restaveks
All around the world, cooks come in many shapes, ages, and dispositions. Many of these cooks are children, mostly girls, …
Idylls of Cuisine, #43
[A picture, and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
Cooking One’s Goose
The traditional English Christmas goose didn’t really make it over here on the other side of the Atlantic, chiefly because …
Mulled Wine, a Timeless Taste of the Divine?
“He has given us plenty of merriment, I am sure,” said Fred, “and it would be ungrateful not to drink …
Pandolce: From Liguria with Love, Thanks to Laura Schenone
Laura Schenone, author of the soulful The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken and the scholarly (and prize-winning) A Thousand Years …
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice and Lemon Pudding Soufflé (essentially a lemon pudding cake) , from a recipe by Joy the Baker.
Wassailing Through
Wassaile the trees, that they may beare You many a Plum and many a Peare: For more or lesse fruits …
Idylls of Cuisine, #42
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
