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 …
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 …
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 …
My true love and I have just begun our annual vacation in Paris and while today was less than Stella (more on my next post) I really felt the need for a quickie. We always stay at the same hotel (Citadines Didot Montparnasse) on rue …
I’ve often said that I live in the perfect location because I live in the heart of a city but within two blocks of Whole Foods, Acme (a well-run traditional supermarket) and the famous Italian Market. I’m also only about twenty minutes by foot from …
I’m back in Philadelphia after spending a little more than a week in London and Leeds. One of the highlights of the trip (and likely to be a destination every time I visit London) was the Borough Market in Southwark, a short walk from the …
The other day while were wandering around Portobello Market I stumbled across Books for Cooks, a charming charming bookstore dedicated to, well, cooks. It’s nearly directly across the street from the more famous Notting Hill Bookshop where Julia Roberts met Hugh Grant in Notting Hill. …
One of the things you do when traveling is to visit museums and since my true love and I are in London, we are visiting museums. While walking through Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum I was struck by how often the objects were connected to food. …
London is famous for its markets but London markets are often more like flea markets than farmer’s markets. Some of the more famous are Camden, Spitalfields, Petticoat Lane, Portobello Road, and Brick Lane but there are dozens. I first visited Portobello Road about ten years …