Eater’s Digest: Recent Food Reading
Let’s welcome 2011 with some link love to recent articles and posts which deal with food and cooking. I hope you find them an enjoyable change of pace! Civil Eats has republished an important article: New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s Share of Antibiotics. Whether you eat meat or not, the antibiotics fed [...]
Flaming Christmas Plum Pudding!
My husband Steve is an Englishman, and at Christmastime I like to treat him to some of his favorites like Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Stilton cheese with a nice port, etc. Yorkshire Pudding is very much like a savory turnover, the batter is poured into the sizzling hot beef drippings and then it puffs [...]
A Simple One-Day Thanksgiving Dinner Cooking Timeline
Let me begin by saying Minimalism and the traditional Thanksgiving dinner are mutually exclusive. It’s probably the American cook’s single most stressful meal of the year. The menu is loaded with traditional dishes made by generations that have gone before us, and adding to the fun it always comes on a Thursday, smack dab in [...]
With a Little Help From My Friends: An Informal Poll
It’s the end of a nice warm October and time to think about what comes next: cold-weather food, holiday food, and food that comforts without packing on the calories. It’s also the end of a month of selling my first e-cookbook and learning how all that works, leading to planning the next one. I’d love [...]
An Autumn Picnic
It was one of those days when the weather was absolutely perfect, the fall colors at their best. While I was reluctantly doing laundry in the basement my eye landed on a classic picnic basket that once belonged to my grandmother, but which I had not once used in the 20-odd years I’d had it. [...]
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