The Roger Smith Cookbook Conference
Just a reminder that you will be able to see some 10 of the 28 sessions live and for free …
Category Archives: Food writing
The Ancient Sin of Gluttony: What’s Really Behind the Shunning of Paula Deen
We need strategies that do not drag us back to the dispositional focus of the Inquisition’s witch-hunts, that propelled the …
The Expert (French) Cook in Enlightenment France: A Review
If you scrutinize sixteenth-century Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen’s painting, “The Cook in Front of the Stove,” you will see a …
The Apples of France: What’s the (Hi)Story?: Speculations about the Origins of Apples in France (Part II)
The frosty morning mists of early autumn roll through the hills, swirling like a white cotton-candy carpet at the base …
Bringing Home the Bacon … and the Onions and the Cheese: Tarte Flambée, Flammekueche, or Alsatian Pizza Bread
One cold, rainy day in October, I sat in front of a fireplace in a small weinstub, or bistro, in …
Michel de Montaigne: “Literally” an Ancestor?
Great article by Sarah Bakewell, on Paris Review site from November 2010: What Bloggers Owe [Michel de] Montaigne Don’t forget …
And to Think it all Started with a French Cookbook: Forty Years of Chez Panisse
Alice Waters often said that Elizabeth David’s French Provincial Cooking started the whole thing, meaning Chez Panisse the restaurant. And of …
New Clothes Always Help
Today Gherkins & Tomatoes / Cornichons & Tomates begins its fourth year of blogging by donning a new look. The …
Celebration! With Champagne …
Gherkins & Tomatoes / Cornichons & Tomates celebrates an anniversary in a couple of days, and I would like to …
Parsleyed Ham and Kitchen Breezes: The Letters of M. F. K. Fisher and Julia Child
Sometimes words, both spoken and written, take on terrible power. Use the wrong word and, at the sound, someone’s heart …
