A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“Vulcan was a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury’s orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph LeVerrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named Vulcan. No such planet was ever found, and Mercury’s… Read More Live Long & Have Some Dinner
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce, poet No electrical trials nor tribulations struck this weekend to hamper our end and beginning of the year festivities. Instead… Read More Chau 2010, Hola 2011!
“I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27. – Clement Atlee, former British Prime Minister Before getting on to my write-ups of this weekend’s dinners, a brief look back at the last two classes of 2010, the “other two” of our Four Chinese Meals – the north and the south, represented by… Read More The Other 2 of 4…
“The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.” – Boutros Boutros-Ghali It’s always tough to wrap-up a year, but it’s also kind of fun to just look… Read More The 2010 Wrap-Up
“The cold truth is that family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.” – M.F.K. Fisher Thankfully, for a change, Mary Frances got it wrong this week. Not only did we host a private family dinner, but it was two,… Read More Family Dinner
“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look… Read More Summer Santa
“Considered good appetite stimulators, radishes actually have very little food value. But they do add tang, texture, color and crunch to meals. Mentioned by Chinese philosopher Confucius back in 479 BC, radishes probably originated in China but are so ancient that their original ancestor is not known. The ancient Greeks ate radishes as well as… Read More Radish Night, Redux
“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.” – Gregory David Roberts, author It has been awhile since I’ve been out “clubbing” – and I don’t mean the disco (are they still called discos?) – I just mean going out to a club. Of any sort. It’s not really my thing,… Read More Dances with Friends