Lemons – Tiny Cathedrals of Gold
Lemons, their pitted, nay, prehistoric, skins secreting golden oil, Shielding sourness, evoking memories of a grandmother’s kitchen, A grandfather’s garden. …
Category Archives: Lent
From Mother Russia with Love: The Domostroi
Cabbage soup and gruel are our food. (Shchi da kasha, pishche nashe.) ~~Russian peasant proverb Trying to ferret out tidbits …
From Mother Russia with Love: Meaty Mushrooms and Relentless Lent
One of her greatest pleasures in summer was the very Russian sport of hodit’ po gribi (looking for mushrooms). Fried …
From Mother Russia with Love: A Monster of a Stove and Tolokno
You can’t cook porridge with a fool. ~~ Russian Proverb ~~ An example of Russian Lenten food, tolokno or oat …
From Mother Russia with Love: Great Lent, the Beginning
Many years ago, a high school history teacher of mine asked our class to write down everything we knew about …
Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 2
Continuing our Lenten foray through fish cookery in Asia …
Idylls of Cuisine, #54
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 1
In Asia, cooking fish presents no problem to thousands of ingenious cooks. The abundance of fish and the surfeit of …
Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Africa
It’s Lent. That means fish to a lot of people, even today, despite the relaxed rules of the Church. But …
Mrs. Sherman G. Bonney on Lent and Fish
Lent used to be a far more widespread concept in American society than one might think. As Mark Kurlansky made …
