Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
New Orleans is celebrated for many things. A special culture and community and feeling. Unique food. Unique music. Unique experiences. But it is also celebrated for celebrating! Right now there isn’t much time for that…
Because it is going to be the official launch virtual party for the revamped Is My Blog Burning food blog metasite on Firday, we are announcing the topical/seasonal ingredient early and in support of the…
I mentioned in a previous post that I would put my humungous (but not as big as kiplog’s) list of food blogs up on the Press For Change site soon. Just to show that I…
It is that time again – the turn of the month is upon us and nominations are needed for ingredients for the next Paper Chef. From this list three ingredients will be chosen as well…
I was thinking about what I am going to make tonight and it got me started musing about how I think differently about cooking in different circumstances. Dinner on a weeknight or even a busy…
Ha ha ha ha! If anyone I know well ever reads this, please accept my apologies for the bump from where you fell off your chair. But I am being organized just this once. Paper…
Well, there will be soon… I finally got around to cleaning out my food weblog list that I keep over at Yahoo’s MyWeb (kind of automatic bookmarking on the web) and I have a list…
It’s funny to me that my most requested dish for potlucks is greens. After all, they are vile, disgusting and your parents MADE you eat them when you were little, so you ended up slowly…
One of my favorite movies of all time for the eery juxtaposition of the mundane and the extraordinary and the creation of a feeling, an emotion and an atmosphere is Alfred Hitchcock’s version of the…
Although I have smoked a few meats in my time (nothing like the smokemeister, Dr. Biggles of course) I have previously restricted myself to the ‘white’ meats – in other words chicken, turkey and pork.…