Author Mark Kurlansky has made a career of examining the intersection of cuisine and culture. In such outstanding treatises as The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell and Cod:… [Continue Reading]
Category: Recipes (Successful and Not)
Last month, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered announced the “Taste of Summer” contest, an invitation to listeners to submit their favorite summer recipes and the great stories behind them…. [Continue Reading]
When you find yourself far from the food you love, you make do — or you make it yourself. Over the years, Chef Sin and I have lived in and visited… [Continue Reading]
For the first 20 years of my imbibing career, I used only one recipe book: Cocktails, a spiral-bound guide self-published in 1984 by my friend Michael Brunelle. An artist and… [Continue Reading]
It was gone, all gone! No turkey! No turkey sandwiches! No turkey salad! No turkey gravy! Turkey hash! Turkey a la king! Or gallons of turkey soup! Gone, ALL GONE!… [Continue Reading]
How did the homeliest bird on the continent become not only our country’s holiday feast favorite but also the home cook’s equivalent of the Hope Diamond? But there it is…. [Continue Reading]
Salty, pungent, sharp Anchovies bring on bad breath Offense is worth it Yeah, I know, don’t quit my day (prose-writing) job, right? But anchovies are one of those foods that… [Continue Reading]
I love jalapenos. I love them fresh but I also love them pickled … on bagels with cream cheese on cheesy pepperoni pizza on nachos in every single Mexican dish… [Continue Reading]
It came with the washing machine. A beautiful, ornately bound cookbook, authored by the Merchant of Menace himself, actor Vincent Price, along with his wife, Mary Price. It was the… [Continue Reading]
Pat Carden is no bartender. The term suggests a mere custodian, one whose job is simply to make sure the customers’ glasses are filled and their tabs are paid. Pat… [Continue Reading]