French Chefs Abroad: Alexis Soyer and His Irish Famine Soup Kitchen
It is to be regretted that men of science do not interest themselves more than they do on a subject …
Category Archives: Beef
Brassai’s Paris, a View Through the Tunnel of Time
Before the second world war, filled with the wandering souls of the “Lost Generation,” Paris throbbed with the fluttering notes …
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: M. F. K. FISHER
Anyone who reveres food and eats oysters, who yearns for security and longs for love, and who seeks out experiences and thinks much must discover M. F. K. Fisher. Just who was M. F. K. Fisher and why did James Beard, that gentle giant of the food world, call her a national treasure? And why did John Updike refer to her as “the poet of the appetites”?
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 …
Saffron: The Gold We Eat
Once used as money instead of gold in Don Quixote’s Spain, saffron costs upwards of $1000 US per pound. Indeed, …
Still Mi Amore — Wild Abandonment Among the Tomatoes and Zucchini
A market is three women and a goose. ~~ Italian proverb ~~ I know that for many Italian women my …
Sugar, Saffron, Spices — The Arab Influence on Spanish Cuisine, a Brief Meditation
Spanish food enjoys some quite heady popularity right now. Trendy magazines and the international food punditry (for example, Matt Preston …
Idylls of Cuisine, #60
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
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 …
De-Constructing Hawaii’s Loco Moco
For those seeking examples of culinary fusion, Hawaii provides a very deep well to peer into. Rachel Laudan discovered this …
