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 …
