Captain Robert Scott’s 97-Year-Old Butter
Captain Robert Scott died in the Antarctic in 1912 as he and his fellow explorers tried to return from the …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
A Russian Cook
Another good appetizer is stewed white mushrooms, with onion, you know, and bay leaf and other spices. You lift the …
Souls of Cooks
Slipping like honey off a silver spoon, all the words build up to an earth-shaking, and revolutionary, crescendo. For the …
The Gifts of Food Bloggers
To celebrate the holiday season, and the Twelve Days of Christmas as it were, I’d like to raise a glass …
Fruitcake, Fermentation by Another Name
We never eat fruitcake because it has rum, And one little slice puts a man on the bum. Oh, can …
Buttering Up
Peppermint flavoring, almond extract, gooey candied fruit, thick dark molasses, perfumey cardamom … the list could go mouth-wateringly on and …
Idylls of Cuisine, #42
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Civil War Christmases
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 100 and 50 guns and plenty …
Christmas Dinner at Mount Vernon, 1790
George Washington’s Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, served as the backdrop for many scrumptious dinners, cooked by Washington’s slave cooks. Just …
In the Kitchen with Barbara Kingsolver: I
I’m going to bed every night now with Barbara Kingsolver’s latest book, The Lacuna: A Novel, about Mexico, politics, art, …
