Food, cooking, and travel
Yesterday my true love, feeding my interest in food history, sent me a clipping from a British newspaper called “Woman’s World.” It was an article entitled “‘Prepack’ Horizon” written by Rosemary Small and it opens thusly: “In 1954 we bought 100,000 “prepacks” – food ready, cleaned …
I recently bought Gastrophysics at a bookstore in Heathrow and it turned out to be interesting in several ways. One is that the UK version, which I purchased, has an entirely different cover than the US version, available from Amazon. The US version is pictured at …
One of the dishes we keep seeing in Rome (and ordered a couple of times) was caci e pepe, basically a spaghetti (or bucatini) in a cheese and black pepper sauce. It’s simplicity is only slight less amazing than it’s taste, but there you go. …
I try to make Easter dinner something out of the ordinary and often succeed, although not always in a good way. Much as I try, I can’t ignore that twice I’ve set off the smoke detectors and summoned the fire department while roasting small game birds. …
A few days ago, I wrote about Philadelphia’s amazing Italian Market but in our City of Brotherly Love, we are blessed by having two great markets – the Italian Market and the Reading Terminal Market. Before I get too much further, though, I have to …
One of the highlights of our trip to Rome was the Campo di Fiori but I have to say those of us from Philadelphia are more than blessed with markets. It’s one of the many things that makes Philly great! There are two notable markets here …
I love markets. One of the things my true love and I always try to find time for when we travel is visiting markets, although on the face of it, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Except for those times when we stay in …