Deep Roots: A Love Note to the Lowly Carrot
A dish of carrot hastily cooked may still have soil uncleaned off the vegetable. ~~ Chinese Proverb Except for the …
Category Archives: Beef
Reveling in Books: Fresh, Bones, Fat, and Meat
Like Susan Bourette in Meat: A Love Story My Year in Search of the Perfect Meal (did she get this …
Flavor Principles Out of Africa: It’s the Beans
Fermented Foods, Especially Oilseeds, as Flavoring in the Cuisines of Africa Opo Iru ko ba obbe je. (Yoruba proverb): Plenty …
Cape Malay Cooking
A Cape Malay Cooking Safari: A little history and a scene-setting food shopping tour, then comes the food and a …
A Dish (or Two) for Children in British Colonial Africa
(A tribute to those women who endured the challenges of living in unfamiliar and far-flung places, raising their children without …
A Pantry in Africa
Maze-like unpaved streets and red-mud brick buildings lend the aura of a rural village to the West African metropolis. Women …
A Cook in Colonial Africa
Esa nearly drops the wine bottle, all because of colonial British ideas about propriety in cooking and dining. That’s from …
A Village in Africa
It didn’t take long for the red dust to coat the white Nissan Patrol 4WD like the sugar crust on …
Mrs. Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book
Nearly everyone on the planet, or at least those with access to education — unfortunately many areas of the world …
Election-Day Menu: Food from Our Greatest Presidents
Hands down, my vote for the greatest presidents we’ve seen in this country goes to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham …
