Food, cooking, and travel
First off, I hope everybody is safe. These are strange, scary times, upsetting all of our routines and challenging everything we take for granted. Among other things, it is refocusing the way we think about food. Sure, we think about ventilators and reproduction rates and …
One of the reasons I like spring is that it gives us two occasions to celebrate cuisines that have contributed to our collective taste memories – St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. For the last several years, I’ve been exploring the differences between Irish and Irish-American …
Supermarkets are light years ahead of where they were twenty years ago, but they still aren’t able to provide everything that an adventurous cook wants to use. For a cook, I live in one of the most amazing places possible – South Philadelphia. To start …
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 …
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 …