The Roger Smith Cookbook Conference

February 2, 2012

To brighten up a dreary February in 2011, a group of food scholars and cookbook writers started a cookbook conference. …

Crème de la Crème: Crème fraîche, a Fable and Some Facts

January 31, 2012

One thing must be cleared up at the start. Crème fraîche does not count sour cream as an equal. Yes, …

January 26, 2012

We need strategies that do not drag us back to the dispositional focus of the Inquisition’s witch-hunts, that propelled the …

January 23, 2012

Meats preserved in wine become dry and nourishing: they dry out because of the wine; they are nourishing because of …

January 20, 2012

Rare is the native English speaker who reads and writes Arabic, classical or otherwise. And thus a vast body of …