SUGARPLUM VISIONS: Christmas Cookies
…visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. ~~Clement C. Moore~~ ” ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” Happy Holidays to all …
Category Archives: Bibliographies
Léon Isnard: Bringing the Cuisines of Africa to France
“It seems that the word couscous is a Gallic version of “rac keskes,” which means “crushed small.” ~ Leon Isnard …
Le Potager du Roi, a Kitchen Garden Fit for a King
Winter still chills those of us north of equator and so the time has come to dream of gardens and …
FOOD FOR ART’S SAKE: Eating with the Impressionists
In celebrating art, the Western world owes a tremendous debt to France. Once a mecca for Impressionist artists and others, France nurtured both their souls and their bellies. And in France, art goes back a long way, back to the time of Cro-Magnon man who left his indelible marks on the dim damp walls of the caves of Lascaux in the Dordogne area of southwestern France.
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: M. F. K. FISHER
Anyone who reveres food and eats oysters, who yearns for security and longs for love, and who seeks out experiences and thinks much must discover M. F. K. Fisher. Just who was M. F. K. Fisher and why did James Beard, that gentle giant of the food world, call her a national treasure? And why did John Updike refer to her as “the poet of the appetites”?
What’s New in Culinary Books
Pigs and hams, barbecue and ice cream — all are foods associated with joy and love and celebration. In the …
The Fiction of Food: Good Reads
A novel thing, novels about food? Not really, not any more. It seems like every publisher, and every writer, is …
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 …
Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg
Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, …
Hunger is the Best Sauce
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem …
