The Grocery List: Color, Primates, and Food Selection

May 24, 2013 by Cynthia Bertelsen

I always take a shopping list with me to the grocery store. But I rarely stick to it, because those marketing experts working for the big chains know just how to entice me into buying things not on my list. That’s probably why most people I see in the grocery store don’t shop with a written list dangling from their hands. Maybe they’ve got one stored on their cell phones through one of the many apps available. Maybe not. A list […]

Categories: American Cooking, Cooking, Food News, Food writing, Home Economics, Photography, Reference • Tags: Apps, Color, Food selection, Grocery lists, Grocery stores, Marketing, Primates

Julia Child’s “The French Chef, ” by Dana Polan

July 17, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

“a history of early American television telescoped through the persona and history of Julia Child. . . . fascinating . . .” When you walk the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, you can’t miss the lingering traces of heroes and history. From the names of the men who brought you the Boston Tea Party to the dead in the Old Burying Ground near Harvard Square, the past perfumes the air. Nearly everywhere you’ll see pictures of a more modern hero, too. […]

Categories: Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food News, France, French Cooking, Uncategorized • Tags: Book Reviews, Dana Polan, Dione Lucas, Florence Hanford, Food Television, France, French Chef, French Cooking, Julia Child, Nigella Lawson, Paul Child

Advice for Food Writers

June 14, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

The buzz not long ago came from the keyboard of Amanda Hesser, a former food writer for The New York Times, who proved with a click of the mouse that controversy gets people reading, Tweeting, Facebooking, and just plain screaming. Or sniffling. Ah yes, that last one.  I hate to say, is what almost happened to me. What a tear-jerker! If Amanda Hesser now struggles to be paid for writing about food, where does that leave the rest of us […]

Categories: Books, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Editorials, Food Columns, Food News, Food writing • Tags: Amanda Hesser, New York Times, Trish Deseine

War. Cook. Eat. Love.

April 10, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Annia Ciezadlo, author of Day of Honey* (Free Press, 2011) , isn’t the first person to cook her way through trying times. Nor will she be the last. But the makeshift kitchens where Ms. Ciezadlo peeled purple eggplant or stirred onions caramelizing for Mjadara Hamra (Lentils with Bulgur Wheat) happened to be in a couple of war zones, neither one in a New York high-rise or a Tuscan olive grove. No, unlike the heartbroken cook in Lily Prior’s La Cucina […]

Categories: Arab cooking, Book Reviews, Food News, Food writing, Garlic, Iran, Middle East • Tags: Annia Ciezadlo, Baghdad, Christian Science Monitor, Day of Honey, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Mohamad Bazzi, New York Times

Fatema Hal: The Interchange of Culinary Ideas Between Morocco and France

February 13, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

On Tuesday, Fatema’s talk (in French) is on “Maroc-France: La cuisine en partage” (“Sharing Food and Cuisine: Between Morocco and France”). Fatema will also do a demonstration on almond briwats on Wednesday March 14, at 3 at GU (Location is ICC 425), and she will give a talk at the French Embassy/Maison Française on Thursday March 15 at 7 p.m.: “Le Maroc sur la route des épices” (Morocco and the spice road). This talk will be translated in English.

Categories: Food News, France, French Cooking, Moroccan Cooking, Morocco • Tags: Culinary History, Fatéma Hal, Food History, France, French cuisine, Moroccan Cooking, Morocco

The Roger Smith Cookbook Conference

February 8, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Just a reminder that you will be able to see some 10 of the 28 sessions live and for free on Friday and Saturday, February 10 and 11, 2012. See schedule of free sessions below. To brighten up a dreary February in 2011, a group of food scholars and cookbook writers started a cookbook conference. It was so successful that they’re doing it again this year, bigger and better. Unfortunately, this year’s Cookbook Conference is completely sold out, and there’s a […]

Categories: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food News, Food writing, India, Methods • Tags: Cookbooks, Culinary History, Food History, Roger Smith Cookbook Conference

The Ancient Sin of Gluttony: What’s Really Behind the Shunning of Paula Deen

January 26, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

We need strategies that do not drag us back to the dispositional focus of the Inquisition’s witch-hunts, that propelled the notion of the “Satan Within,” when much good and evil is the product of situational and systemic forces acting on the same ordinary, often good people.  ~~ Philip Zimbardo  It’s been with a great deal of amazement that I’ve watched the reaction to the American food-media celebrity Paula Deen’s announcement of her Type 2 diabetes diagnosis three years ago and […]

Categories: American Cooking, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Editorials, Food News, Food writing, France, French Cooking, United States • Tags: Culinary History, Food History, Gluttony, Paula Dean, Southern cooking

Michel de Montaigne: “Literally” an Ancestor?

September 25, 2011 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Great article by Sarah Bakewell, on Paris Review site from November 2010: What Bloggers Owe [Michel de] Montaigne Don’t forget that Michel wrote about cannibalism, relating it to ethical issues. Read his essays in translation HERE. A taste, if I may be so bold:  I am not sorry that we notice the barbarous horror of such acts, but I am heartily sorry that, judging their faults rightly, we should be so blind to our own. I think there is more […]

Categories: Food News, Food writing, France, Photography • Tags: Bloggers, Blogging, Cannibals, France, French Literature, Inspiration for Bloggers, Michel de Montaigne, Philophy, Renaissance

New Clothes Always Help

July 28, 2011 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Today Gherkins & Tomatoes / Cornichons & Tomates begins its fourth year of blogging by donning a new look. The  new design minimizes sidebar distractions, allowing readers to focus on the latest post. Sleek, like a little black dress without even a string of pearls …

Categories: Art, Food News, Food writing • Tags: Little black dress

Un Petit Départ, Un Petit “Au Revoir”, or, Helping Père Noël and Saint Nicolas

December 14, 2010 by Cynthia Bertelsen

During this Christmas season,  Gherkins & Tomatoes / Cornichons & Tomates will be in a state of flux, assisting Père Noël and St. Nicolas with the festivities here, as well as hibernating and storing up fat (information) for future posts. Needless to say, posting may become sporadic until January 6 (Epiphany). I wish you all a wonderful holiday season, full of delicious dishes and fine company, no coal in your stockings, and time to enjoy life. Joyeux Noël!!

Categories: Christmas, Food News • Tags: Christmas

Another Last Word on French Cuisine and UNESCO’s “Intangible Cultural Heritage” Program

November 23, 2010 by Cynthia Bertelsen

The recent inscribing of  ”intangible cultural heritage” status  to “the French gastronomic meal” by UNESCO brought both cheers and jeers to the table. As I wash my hands and get out my Le Creuset terrine baker for the paté de campagne en croûte for Thanksgiving appetizers, I’d like to share a quote with all of you about French cuisine, at least as it exists in the incarnation rewarded with the UNESCO designation: Although it may be commonly agreed, and not by […]

Categories: Cooking, Food News, France, French Cooking • Tags: Bread, Butter, Cuisine Francaise, France, French cuisine, Intangible cultural heritage, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, Patrimoine mondial de l'humanité, Radishes, UNESCO, World Heritage Site

French Cuisine, an Exposition on Medieval Food Not to be Missed

November 22, 2010 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Click on the image to “attend” a gorgeous exposition of the history of medieval French cuisine: Be sure to click on the images in order to start the slide shows, chock full of paintings depicting culinary life during the Middle Ages.

Categories: Art, Cooking, Food News, France, French Cooking, Paintings, Photography • Tags: Cuisine Francaise, Culinary History, Culinary History Expositions, Culinary History Images, French cuisine

The French Gastronomic Meal, UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

November 18, 2010 by Cynthia Bertelsen

French Gastronomic Meal The Committee 1. Takes note that France has nominated the gastronomic meal of the French for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, described as follows: The gastronomic meal of the French is a customary social practice for celebrating important moments in the lives of individuals and groups, such as births, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, achievements and reunions. It is a festive meal bringing people together for an occasion to enjoy the art of good eating and […]

Categories: Cooking, Food News, France, French Cooking • Tags: Cuisine Francaise, France, Gastronomy, Intangible cultural heritage, Patrimoine mondial de l'humanité, Social practice, UNESCO

What’s New in Culinary Books

July 22, 2010 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Pigs and hams, barbecue and ice cream — all are foods associated with joy and love and celebration. In the United States, anyway. And writers take these foods and weave words around and around like so many carefully knitted stitches, creating new books, making this year an exciting time for food and history lovers. The increasing onslaught of books on preserving and preparing traditional foods promises to create a generation of cooks far more savvy than those of the previous […]

Categories: Bibliographies, Cookbooks, Food News, Food writing, Methods • Tags: Food History, New Publications

In Haiti, The Four Horsemen Strike Again

January 13, 2010 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Surely all of you now know about the latest disaster to hit Haiti — an earthquake of 7.0 hit Haiti at about 4 PM on January 12, 2010, followed by aftershocks of 5.5 and 5.9. The damage to Port-au-Prince looks like the result of a bombing raid and, indeed, experts say that the devastation resembles that of a nuclear blast. For the poor, traumatized people of Haiti — 80% of whom live at poverty level or below — the situation […]

Categories: Food News, Haiti • Tags: Development Assistance, Disaster, Earthquake, Haiti, Starvation

Notes from Haiti: Restaveks

December 29, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

All around the world, cooks come in many shapes, ages, and dispositions. Many of these cooks are children, mostly girls, working in the kitchens of wealthy people. In some cases, the arrangement veers on the edge of slavery, not employment. And in Haiti, an outright form of slavery still exists. A recent Huffington Post article, “Report Says 225,000 Haiti Children Work as Slaves,” contains no real new information, although such publicity brings exposure and therefore possibly an end to this […]

Categories: Cooking, Food News, Haiti • Tags: Cooking, Haiti, Restaveks, Slavery, Water

Scaling Back, Nothing Fishy About It!

November 17, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

To all the wonderful readers of “Gherkins & Tomatoes”: I would like to let you know that starting this week (11/16/2009), I will be temporarily posting two times a week — likely on Mondays and Thursdays, with a picture or a new food book announcement on the weekends when pertinent. Due to a very large and ongoing writing project, my time just doesn’t stretch as far I would like it to. And so, to continue providing you with material worth […]

Categories: Editorials, Food News

Oxford Food Symposium 2009

November 7, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

The Oxford Food Symposium 2009, from an article by Corby Kummer of The Atlantic. The 2010 Symposium will take place in July 9 – 11, at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, England; the conference topic is very timely — “Cured, Fermented, and Smoked Foods.” January 15, 2010 marks the deadline for proposals for talks. Guess what I want for my birthday? (Hint: It involves silver wings and Guinness.)

Categories: Cooking, England, English Cooking, Europe, Food News, Methods • Tags: Food History, Oxford Food Symposium, Prospect Books

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Ghoulish Goodies

October 24, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Check this out — a recent cookbook all about Halloween, for kids young and old: Ghoulish Goodies: Creature Feature Cupcakes, Monster Eyeballs, Bat Wings, Funny Bones, Witches’ Knuckles, and Much More! (Frightful Cookbook), by Sharon Bowers (2009). Eat, drink, and enjoy the creepy yuckiness of Monster Eyeballs, Chocolate Spider Clusters, Buried Alive Cupcakes, and Screaming Red Punch. In her colorful collection of frightful foods, Sharon Parrish Bowers shares the fun of baking, decorating, and indulging in delicious treats that celebrate […]

Categories: Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Food News, Halloween • Tags: All Souls' Day, Book Reviews, Day of the Dead, Ghoulish Goodies, Halloween, Sharon Bowers

The Chicken or the Egg? 4. Egging Us On

October 15, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

A few days ago, I thumbed through the brand-new, hot-off-the-press version of Larousse Gastronomique. You know,  Julia Child’s bedtime reading.  At least according to the movie, “Julie & Julia.” After all, Julia once remarked that, “If I were allowed only one reference book in my library, Larousse Gastronomique would be it, without question.” First written in French by Prosper Montagné in 1938, it wasn’t until 1961 that English speakers could savor Larousse, edited by Charlotte Turgeon and Nina Froud. Since […]

Categories: Book Reviews, Cooking, Eggs, Food News, France, French Cooking • Tags: Cookbooks, Eggs, French Cooking, Larousse Gastronomique

R.I.P. Gourmet

October 5, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

My heart broke a little when Julia Child died in August 2004. The end of an era and all that. But did I know what the end of a culinary era really was? Not exactly. Now I know. By the time you read this, you will probably have learned that Condé Nast announced on October 5, 2009 that one of the most revered magazines in the United States, Gourmet, born in January 1941, on the cusp of the horrors of […]

Categories: Food News • Tags: Condé Nast, Gourmet magazine

Weihenstephan, the Oldest Brewery in the World (?)

August 26, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Make that the oldest brewery still standing (and producing) in the world, never mind that the oldest brewery is actually a smashed clay pot [no pun intended] someplace yet to be dug up by an intrepid and curious archaeologist. Given my deep interest in fermentation, as well as the impact of monks and monasteries on the foods and beverages of Europe,  plus the fact that I just adore European beer, imagine my delight yesterday when I looked at all the […]

Categories: Europe, Fermentation, Food News, Germany, Monasteries • Tags: Bavaria, Beer, Breweries, Monasteries, Monks, Weihenstephan

Food History Isn’t Just Old Stuff

February 16, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Convenience in the kitchen, a state of affairs that most of our great-grandmothers would have killed for, snuck into food history about the time the Russians sent Sputnik into orbit. Science ruled, even in the kitchen. An interesting thing happened, though,  when everybody happily dove into easy-to-fix dinners and eating out. People started looking like the Michelin Tire guy and the Pillsbury Dough Boy rolled into one. In other words, America got fat. For the first time in human history, […]

Categories: American Cooking, Book Reviews, Food News • Tags: Book Reviews, Hank Cardello, Obesity, Stuffed

Fabulous Food Blogs, Round 2

February 7, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Just in time for a leisurely weekend, a watered-down version of the food blogs Academy Awards. Truthfully, this sort of thing reminds me (uncomfortably, in a way) of chain letters and ponzi schemes, but the fact of the matter is that informal and impromptu blogging awards spur bloggers on, especially when blog  stats come in low week after week. And so many blogs deserve recognition. On January 25, 2009,the blog  Foodvox graced “Gherkins & Tomatoes” with an interesting (and somewhat […]

Categories: Food News, Food writing • Tags: Cooking, Food Blogs, Food History

No Longer an Old Wives’ Tale: The Measure of Garlic’s Medicinal Powers

February 3, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

It’s official. Garlic really does act against free radicals. And now we know how. Count Dracula feared garlic (Allium sativum). And with good reason, according to a study conducted by researchers at Queen’s University in Canada and published in the January 2009 issue of the international chemistry journal, Angewandte Chemie. Long known for its beneficial antioxidant properties, garlic rests comfortably in the pantheon of natural medicine. But why? How exactly does garlic attack free radicals and prevent tissue damage? Most […]

Categories: Food News, Garlic • Tags: Cooking, Food, Garlic, Natural Medicine

Four Food Groups of the Apocalypse

February 2, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Frank Rich briefly mentions food in his January 31, 2009 NYT op-ed “Herbert Hoover Lives.” He asks (and answers his own question), “What are Americans still buying [eating]? Big Macs, Campbell’s soup, Hershey’s chocolate and Spam – the four food groups of the apocalypse.” Apocalypse??? Interesting way of putting things. The Spam thing caught my attention, because as with President Obama,  Spam loomed large in my childhood. Pink, rubbery, slightly sweet, a little hammy. Yeah. Be sure to visit Hormel’s […]

Categories: American Cooking, Food News • Tags: Big Macs, Campbell's Soup, Food, Hershey's Chocolate, Spam

Fabulous Food Blogs

January 25, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

The other day, a fellow food blogger awarded the Fabulous Food Blog Award to Gherkins & Tomatoes.  See the post HERE. Now that the torch has been passed, I must swing the award to five other food bloggers and list my five most serious food-related addictions. There are ever so many food blogs out there and, to paraphrase Forrest Gump, the roster of food blogs is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to find. I […]

Categories: Cookbooks, Food News, Food writing • Tags: Food Blogs

500 Years of Grapes and Wine in America: A Remarkable Story

January 24, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Curated by Prof. Dan Longone and Jan Longone, February 16-May 29, 2009 Clements Library, University of Michigan Open to the public, free of charge, Mon-Fri 1-5pm Lecture on the exhibition, Sunday May 10, 3-5pm Prof. Dan Longone and Jan Longone Co-sponsored by the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor PLEASE ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TO: jblong@umich.edu

Categories: American Cooking, Food News, Wine • Tags: American Cooking, Clements Library, Culinary History, Jan Longone, Wine

Braving the Elements, Slogging Through the Crowds, Eating Thanks to Whole Foods: Inauguration 2009

January 21, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Up at 6:30 a.m., out the hotel door at 8:00 a.m., a bit of my homemade granola rumbling in my stomach, lubricated with some 2% ultra-high-temperature milk. Down to the Third Street tunnel, completely devoid of cars, looking for all the world like the set of Wall-E the movie. But there were people there, thousands of them. Thousands and thousands and thousands.   Two million, actually. All needing the basics of life. All needing to eat. Water bottles popped out of […]

Categories: American Cooking, Food News • Tags: Food, Inauguration 2009, Whole Foods

Palette Didn’t Deliver: Inaugural Dining on the Streets of Washington, DC

January 20, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

After much anticipation, we arrived at Palette for our inaugural luncheons-inspired menu yesterday at 12 noon on the dot. Alas, unbeknownst to us, the chef only parades that menu during the dinner hour. So it was a burger and fries and a turkey club for us. Both excellent, perhaps the best burger ever, served on brioche dense enough to stand up to the tomato and the lettuce and the thick slice of fried onion ring. Beautiful decor, attentive waiter, casual […]

Categories: American Cooking, Food News, Restaurants • Tags: Inauguration 2009, Palette restaurant

Eating in Washington, DC Hazardous to One Food Writer’s Health …

January 19, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

News has it that cookbook author and TV chef Tom Colicchio of the Craft empire saved New York Times food writer and cookbook author Joan Nathan’s life last night. According to a local blog, the DCist, “The big save happened at a benefit for D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table, where luminaries of the food world milled about and showed off their skills.” Colicchio employed the Heimlich Maneuver, which apparently really works. My favorite Tom Colicchio cookbook is Think Like […]

Categories: Food News • Tags: Inauguration 2009, Joan Nathan, Tom Colicchio

The Willard Hotel, and a Near Brush with Obama’s Motorcade

January 18, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

See all photos (unedited) by clicking HERE: Last night’s dinner at the historic Willard Hotel almost didn’t happen because as we walked down 15th St., we couldn’t cross the street because the police had cordoned off the street to await the Obama motorcade’s passing through on the way to Blair House. But at one point we saw people darting across the road in the darker spots and so we did, too. The whole thing reminded me of the times we […]

Categories: Food News, French Cooking, White House • Tags: Barack Obama, Inauguration 2009, Willard Hotel

Uber-Chef Alice Waters Comes To Washington: Inauguration Week’s Best Dinner

January 14, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Alice Waters deserves more main-stream press recognition. Follow the link to see the detail about Alice’s Restaurant (!) taking shape in Washington DC, where $500 gets you the best meal in town. (Note that $350 of that lump sum will end up in the coffers of local soup kitchens, and rightly so.) Aided by a group of local culin-istas, Waters hopes the Monday night menu will features Chesapeake Bay oysters and crostini; rockfish soup and a confit of saffron-spiked tomatoes, […]

Categories: American Cooking, Food News • Tags: Alice Waters, Cooks, Food Pantries, Inauguration 2009, National Service Day, Soup Kitchens

Rest in Peace: Gaston Lenôtre

January 9, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Gaston Lenôtre, wizard of French pastry and culinary empire builder, died January 8, 2008, according to the January 9, 2008  New York Times. My fonder memories of Paris include gorging myself on Operas from his pastry shops. Not that other shops didn’t make swoon-worthy Operas, but somehow I just kept thinking of Lenôtre’s as the gold standard. Thanks for the memories, Chef Lenôtre! You were really ours … © 2008 C. Bertelsen

Categories: Food News, French Cooking • Tags: Cooks, French Cooking, French Pastry, Gaston Lenôtre

Top 10 Food Trends for 2009 — According to the Food Channel

December 27, 2008 by Cynthia Bertelsen

[Note: This post is a bit of a rant in reaction to the Food Channel list of trends for 2009.] The Food Channel announced its predictions for foodie trends in 2009. (See The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch for the whole story, based on a press release from the Food Channel.) 1.  Home on the Range — Downsized economy breeds new generation of home chefs, more food-savvy than their predecessors. 2.  Foodie 2.0 — Growth of virtual and non-virtual food communities. […]

Categories: American Cooking, Food News • Tags: American Cooking, Culinary History, Food, Food Channel

Codfish Tales and Codfish Bones: Woe is Us

December 18, 2008 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Glo’ster girls they have no combs, Heave away, heave away! They comb their hair with codfish bones, We’re bound for South Australia. ~~ Old sea shanty ~~ Bacalhau, bacalao, cabillaud (from the Dutch kabeljauw), morue (and the marvelous brandade* resulting therefrom). Gone with the waves? Maybe. A disturbing story in the December 15, 2008 New York Times — “A Portuguese Tradition Faces a Frozen Future” — suggests that salt cod will be going the way of the dodo bird. Or […]

Categories: Africa, Food News, Portugal • Tags: Bacalao, Bacalhau, Brandade de Morue, Cod, Codfish, Cooking, Food, Morue

BREAKING: Vilsack is the New Agriculture Secretary

December 16, 2008 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Not a real victory for the petition signers and Michael Pollan advocates … Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor. In the words of Jill Richardson: “After his own presidential campaign floundered, Vilsack backed Hillary Clinton in the primary, but has recently been campaigning for Obama. One of Obama’s top campaign strategists, David Axelrod, also ran Vilsack’s 1998 gubernatorial campaign. Vilsack, however, also was heavily involved in education issues in Iowa and could also fit in the role of education secretary as […]

Categories: Agriculture, Food News • Tags: Barack Obama, Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack

Secretary of Agriculture: Still moot but …

December 16, 2008 by Cynthia Bertelsen

The Associated Press released the following names on December 16, 2008 as contenders for President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture. For more about each of these people, see my post with biographical blurbs. Dennis Wolff, Pennsylvania agriculture secretary. Tom Buis, president of National Farmers Union. Former Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas. Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, D-S.D. Former Rep. Jill Long Thompson, D-Ind.

Categories: Agriculture, Food News • Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Stenholm, Dennis Wolff, Jill Long Thompson, Secretary of Agriculture, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Tom Buis

Some Notable Food Books of 2008

December 15, 2008 by Cynthia Bertelsen

There are food books and there are food books. The following list contains no whispers from FoodTV icons or other foodie celebrities. Just dedicated scholarship and authenticity (or as much authenticity as is possible when it comes to real food). The brief descriptions following each title following come from product blurbs provided by the publishers. America’s Food: What You Don’t Know About What You Eat, by Harvey Blatt “We don’t think much about how food gets to our tables, or […]

Categories: Agriculture, Book Reviews, Critic's Corner, Food News • Tags: Agricullture, Books, Cooking, Food