A seemingly delectable book on literature's feasts.In the past month, I've made this recipe for creamy one-pot pasta with leeks no less than five times; it hails from the kitchen of Ashley Rodriguez, the voice behind Not Without Salt, and is nothing short of wonderful and easy. "Part cookbook, part social and cultural history" and Bloomsbury, this…
We are always after some new thing. Which is fine in many ways, but in matters of food often disastrous. We are so busy running after the latest dish, that the good things we have known for centuries are forgotten as quickly as the boring things. -Jane Grigson (English Food) The wise Jane Grigson wrote…
Something tells me that writing a post about butternut squash isn't exactly seasonally appropriate (who, after all, wants to think about a winter squash when there are artichokes and asparagus and strawberries?), but, nevertheless, I will tell you about it anyway. Not only is it a unique way of preparing butternut squash, a real game…
Dining with Dostoevsky 