Idylls of Cuisine, #64
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Tilting at Windmills with Don Quixote, Or, A Meditation on Spanish Herbals
I’ll confess something here: until just recently, I never read Don Quixote, except for snippets here and there. No, thanks …
What Do You Mean You Don’t Need Cookbooks? (Or, What Good are All Those Cookbooks on Your Sagging Shelves?)
I’ll admit it: I collect cookbooks like some people collect plastic pigs or miniature silver tourist-spot spoons or wine corks …
Idylls of Cuisine, #63
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
The Herbs in Spain Grow Mainly on the Plain
Many times when I walk through the nearby woods, I marvel at all the plants hiding under rotting logs and …
I was in Prison and You Did Not Feed Me
In preparation for certain medical tests (the torturous “tum-and-bum” procedure, I call it), I recently spent five days on an …
Idylls of Cuisine, #62
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Sour and Bitter Blended in the Soup of Wu:* Very Early Chinese Herbals
For years, I’ve been carting around a number of books about Chinese medicine and food, fascinated by the ancient linkage …
Of Herbs and Other Country Messes
When the sage comes to life again, after its long, lonely slumber in the freezing winter, I always just stop …
Mothers’ Day
HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY to everyone who’s ever had a mother. (That covers a lot of people, ha, ha!) And a …
