Food, cooking, and travel
Bloomberg recently ran an article (Birdseed turned superfood may help curb India’s diabetes scourge) on India’s attempts to increase the production of millet to combat a substantial increase in diabetes. According to the article, the incidence of diabetes has increased fivefold since 1980 and is …
My efforts in replicating caci e pepe (here and here) has led to some experiments in a more simple and direct approach to pasta. When I was a kid, there was no such thing as “pasta.” We had spaghetti with tomato sauce and either meatballs …
One of the things I love about living in the U.S. is that our cuisine is omnivorous. Just think about this for a minute. French fries, pasta with tomato sauce (gravy if you’re from Philadelphia), pizza, sushi, frankfurters, hummus and pita bread, tacos, and spring …
One of my favorite cookbook authors is James Peterson. The first book of his I purchased was Cooking, a book pretty accurately subtitled as a culinary education. I’ve since bought his book on soups and another on sauces and they are both great. Peterson has …
I have no idea what this means right now, but I know that in a year or two we will all acknowledge that this will be important in some way. How we as consumers get our food goes a long way to determine what food we get …
A while back I told the story of how I tried to recreate the caci e pepe we enjoyed so much during our vacation in Rome and how badly I failed. Well if at first you don’t succeed… My true love came back to Philadelphia …
A couple of years back during one of our trips to Paris, my true love and I were walking in the neighborhood a little north of the Champs-Élysées. We’d already visited at least one museum and were wandering the streets of this fairly swanky district, …
I love fish and chips. Every time I travel to the UK, which is fairly often, I make a point of having fish and chips at least once. You wouldn’t think I’d get so worked up about a piece of flaky white fish deep fried …