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In Haiti, The Four Horsemen Strike Again
Surely all of you now know about the latest disaster to hit Haiti — an earthquake of 7.0 hit Haiti …
Notes from Haiti: Restaveks
All around the world, cooks come in many shapes, ages, and dispositions. Many of these cooks are children, mostly girls, …
Scaling Back, Nothing Fishy About It!
To all the wonderful readers of “Gherkins & Tomatoes”: I would like to let you know that starting this week …
Oxford Food Symposium 2009
The Oxford Food Symposium 2009, from an article by Corby Kummer of The Atlantic. The 2010 Symposium will take place …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Ghoulish Goodies
Check this out — a recent cookbook all about Halloween, for kids young and old: Ghoulish Goodies: Creature Feature Cupcakes, …
The Chicken or the Egg? 4. Egging Us On
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. …
R.I.P. Gourmet
My heart broke a little when Julia Child died in August 2004. The end of an era and all that. …
Weihenstephan, the Oldest Brewery in the World (?)
Make that the oldest brewery still standing (and producing) in the world, never mind that the oldest brewery is actually …
Food History Isn’t Just Old Stuff
Convenience in the kitchen, a state of affairs that most of our great-grandmothers would have killed for, snuck into food …
