A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.” – Bertrand Russell, Logician and Philosopher Your only critical decision this morning is whether you’re going to go with flavedo and albedo, or exocarp and mesocarp. We’re going to completely ignore the endocarp and vesicles. Really, it’s that simple. I’ll wait. Okay,… Read More Just My Type, Mrs. Peel
“Pythagoras, like the Chaldeans under whom he studied, thought that souls ended up in fava beans. My college philosophy textbook contained the fragmentary Pythagorean tenet “abstain from beans,” not explaining that it might have something to do with eating your forebears. (Heraclitus referenced this in his own aphorism on human fallibility: “Pythagoras may well have… Read More Some fava beans and a nice…
“… Although your dominion is small, however, your State is one of the most honored of all history” – Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States When I spotted that this weekend was Republic Day in San Marino I thought that would be a great theme – especially with a sort of round number like… Read More Revisiting the Oldest Enclave
“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.” – Israel Zangwill, author and political activist This weekend continued my project to go back to the early years of the Second Sunday Supper Club, my New… Read More The Early Years V
“The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.” – John Ciardi, poet and translator This winter has been a slow one here at Casa S. A massive drop-off in tourism due to the volcanic ash problems led to a huge number of cancellations for the dinners (during June and… Read More Veganasian
“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.” – Alfred Whitney… Read More Mona Lisa Smiles
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.” – Andre Malraux, French historian There’s an apartment in… Read More Days in Photos
“He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes.” – Maltese proverb Henry doesn’t like pancakes, which, if he didn’t have other redeeming qualities would likely end our relationship. It doesn’t mean I can’t make them anyway, it just means that normally then I’d have to make two different weekend breakfasts (during the week my… Read More The Vegan Short Stack