Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: The Other Mrs. (Abby) Fisher
Before M. F. K. Fisher, sometimes known as plain Mrs. Fisher, there was Mrs. Abby Fisher. And Abby Fisher’s personage …
Category Archives: American Cooking
Remembering Julia Child, “Our Lady of the Ladle”*
(Julia Child died on August 13, 2004. Her birthday was August 15; she would have been 92 years old. The …
Hamburger Heaven, or the Global Burger: A Medley of Recipes
Hot weather does funny things to people, especially to cooks. Certain instincts crop up at about the same time that …
Hippie Cookbooks, Alice’s Restaurant, and Whole Wheat: How We Got Organic
One day, Alice Brock saw a tour bus coming up the drive to her restaurant and she suddenly remembered she …
A Few Choice Morsels: Children’s Cookbooks
British star chef Jamie Oliver, in spite of the flapdoodle surrounding his school lunch efforts in West Virginia, is just …
Lent, According to American Cookery, the Magazine, That is
Lent can be a really interesting time of the year. For some of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, a …
Snowbound … The Poetry, The Food, The Reality
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems now here to …
Thomas Jefferson and His Magic “Maccaroni” Machine
Thomas Jefferson, rightly or wrongly credited with first bringing pasta to the tables of Americans, drew a picture of a …
Dig for Victory! Locavorism in Eons Past
Looking at the past almost always calls up that old adage: “There’s nothing new under the sun.”* Take locavorism’s wartime …
Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg: Slideshow
Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg collections, a parade of eighteenth-century goodies. Note the lamb’s head on the end …
