There are so many reasons to eat healthy, organic sustainable food from small farmers rather than from large conglomerates and the evidence presented in these articles is overwhelming.
Culinary Reading Delights — A Noncaloric List
Most people love to eat and have cherished memories of meals they’ve shared over the years with friends and family. If you’ve ever read Peter Mayle, Frances Mayes or Carol Drinkwater, you know exactly what I mean. Their memoirs, while not technically in the culinary genre, all describe the planning and execution of those meals in a very personal way.
Read This Book, Then Run To the Food Store
This post would have been finished much earlier if I hadn’t been busy copying the scrumptious recipes that Molly Wizenberg, author of A Homemade Life: Stories […]
Cooking it Up at Le Cordon Bleu
Michael Ruhlman, the gourmand and talented nonfiction writer (Making of a Chef and House: A Memoir among others) wrote a quote on the back cover of […]
Reading Culinary Memoirs — A Guilty Pleasure
How sinfully delicious it can be to read culinary memoirs. The stories are entertaining, often quite humorous and the descriptions of the food may be mouth watering but, luckily, not caloric. […]
Nectar of the Gods
Galileo said that it is “sunlight, held together by water”, while Robert Louis Stevenson stated it was “bottled poetry” and Thomas Jefferson declared that it is “a necessity […]
Fortune cookies…Japanese or Chinese in Origin?
Well, for any of you who’ve ever pondered this you are not alone. Jennifer 8. Lee (yes her middle name is 8 ) has written […]