An Ancient Mediterranean Taste: France’s Boutargue
The Egyptians who fled to Marseille from Egypt after the Napoleonic debacle there (1801) brought with them a hankering for …
Category Archives: Fish
Dining Alone – Not the Loneliest Number that You’ll Ever Do: Just Ask Louis XIV
King Louis XIV did it. M. F. K. Fisher did it. The faceless man in Edward Hopper’s painting, “Nighthawks,” did …
Will Verral’s Masterpiece of 1759: A Complete System of Cookery
The English could never catch a break in the kitchen. Why, as early as 1759, in A Complete System of …
The Fish of France
Monkfish: A Little Love, French-Style
I first gazed on his ugly mug in French-influenced Morocco, more precisely at the fish market in Rabat. And like …
Salt of Earth, Crucible of Life
Just a pinch, and the primal sea surges, memories filling your mouth. Weep, and you’ll know what fish first knew. …
Cooking with Saint-Pierre (John Dory)
As it fell on a holy-day, And vpon an holy-tide-a, Iohn Dory bought him an ambling nag, To Paris for …
Scenes from La France Profonde
Idylls of Cuisine, #81
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
From Mother Russia with Love: A Fish in Every Pie
The kulebyaka should be appetizing, shameless in its nakedness, a temptation to sin. ~~ Anton Chekov, “The Siren” Fish dishes …
