A Gallery of Birthday Cakes
It’s lovely to think that a birthday cake actually manifests an ancient custom, when — just like today — bakers …
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Idylls of Cuisine, #54
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
The British Melting Pot
I recently ran across these books, mentioned on an interesting British Web site providing glimpses and glances at cookbooks published …
Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 1
In Asia, cooking fish presents no problem to thousands of ingenious cooks. The abundance of fish and the surfeit of …
Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Africa
It’s Lent. That means fish to a lot of people, even today, despite the relaxed rules of the Church. But …
Idylls of Cuisine, #53
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Mrs. Sherman G. Bonney on Lent and Fish
Lent used to be a far more widespread concept in American society than one might think. As Mark Kurlansky made …
A Bloody Fish Story
The price of fish is something nice — for fishmongers through the centuries, that is. And over the years, observers …
