A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“I try to stay true to my heart, true to the produce available in this country … so whatever comes out is modern Chinese, or Chinese-Australian.” – Kylie Kwong, Australian chef It should come as no surprise to anyone that I enjoy watching cooking shows. I always have, since the days when the only ones… Read More China Eggs
“Before stardom beckoned in 1931, Morley had gone so far as to embark on a degree in medicine at UCLA before the acting bug bit, and its this extensive education that explains a lot about this actress. No feminine caricature or glamorous studio creation, Morley was and still is an odd presence in an era… Read More Just a Small Town Girl
“I never see any home cooking. All I get is fancy stuff.” – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh So what’s been gracing the table here at home the last week. Haven’t been going out at dinner time, pretty much all home cooking. Some of it, a chance to play with dishes that Henry’s not fond… Read More What’s on the table?
“It is strange that Jews in every country of the Diaspora begin to pray for rain in the daily Amidah prayer (Ten tal umatar, “please give us rain and dew”) on December 4 or 5, about ten days ago, at the onset of the rainy season in Babylon (Babylonian Talmud Taanit 10). It would be… Read More Rain & Dew
“The country possesses extraordinary biodiversity, and its cuisine showcases this bounty of ingredients in exciting dishes inspired by Spanish, native Indian, African, Chinese and Japanese kitchens. For a food traveler, Peru is paradise.” – Patricia Unterman, food critic, San Francisco Examiner A quick wrap-up on this weekend’s dinners, I know this is a third dinner… Read More Peruvian Send-Off
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.” – A. Whitney Brown, writer & comedian Before anyone feels the need to point it out, I know I said awhile back that I wasn’t scheduling any more vegetarian dinners – but that’s not exactly what I said.… Read More ASEAN Veg-Out
“The system of slavery in Brazil was the longest and well structured of the Americas, with about 4 million Blacks being brought here who, enslaved over three centuries, built the fortune of the Brazilian ruling classes and increased that of the Europeans. But while they were enslaved in Brazil, the blacks resisted it in various… Read More Who Was Zumbi? you might ask…
Wood-Apple? Blue Cracker? The asteroid belt 72? Nay, not those Feronia, but the Roman goddess of… wait, of travelers, or fire, or waters, or the harvest, or fertility… no one seems quite sure, though woods and springs are some of her favorite things. All I know is that it was her feast day last weekend… Read More Dear Old Feronia