Food, cooking, and travel
A couple of days ago I talked about digital food. The actual incident that got me thinking about ebooks, recipe managers, and all other kinds of ways that food intersects with the new digital era was buying and reading Cooking with Spices by Mark Stevens. …
This article was originally going to be about something else. I was going to do a quick catchup on some of the things I’ve been reading lately, but When I was going through the list of books, I got diverted by Cooking with Spices by …
Monday morning I was making a wrap sandwich to have for lunch. Now you have to realize that this is about 5:45 am, because I need to get to work by 7:00 am and I have a half-hour commute, I haven’t showered yet, and I …
I suppose I could make them myself. After all, a gołąbki (usually pronounced in the U.S. as galumpkee) is essentially ground meat (pork or lamb) wrapped in cabbage leaves. How hard can that be? That’s not the point, though. I just feel the need to mark …
I tend to go through serial obsessions in the kitchen. Every once in a while I’ll stumble across a new ingredient or a new technique and then spend the next several weeks exploring it. This past spring and summer I was in a Middle Eastern …
The last time I was in the UK, I was in Marks and Spencer assembling ingredients for dinner. Those of you in the US may not know about Marks and Spencer, but it is the absolute British equivalent of giant old school retail, except that …
Last night was one of those nights where I started off without having any idea whatsoever about what I wanted to make for dinner. All day long at work I was trying to come up with something I wanted to do for dinner and essentially …