Since people seem rather taken (or annoyed) with my possum and taters recipe, I'll throw a couple of other classics of American food preparation over the weekend. Here's a recipe to one of my favorite American dishes, passenger pigeon! From Marion Harland's 1871 book, Common...
food
American food, ladies and gentlemen. So tasty I want to puke. I think I'd rather have this recipe for possum and taters.
So the CSA last week included a lot of okra, and I've already used some in jambalaya. Anybody have a favorite preparation we should try? Bonus points if it includes.
Interesting piece on food trucks in the Times. A couple of thoughts. 1. The complaint from restauranteurs about a loss of business when food trucks pull up is mostly absurd. I say mostly because if a food truck is never there and then is suddenly...
It's unfortunate that Bittman is ending his Minimalist column, but this link to the full archive will be handy.
Time for an unjustifiably general rant against the people of an entire region of the United States:The Midwest of the United States appears utterly incapable of properly cooking a steak..
Last winter my fiancee got me to start watching Top Chef, which was my introduction to so-called Reality TV. I confess I really enjoyed it, despite the obviously stagey aspects of the whole thing (and I picked up a few cooking tips in the bargain).Last...
This is right. Admittedly, traditions being self-justifying is less harmless when it comes to one meal a year as opposed to, say, when Antonin Scalia uses this logic with respect.
I think Kim du Toit has been reading The Corner lately:[A]n increasingly large cohort of America in the lower 48 (and probably Hawaii) are p—-ies. They have no clue where.
I'll be hanging out in various quadrants of the midwest for the next two weeks, so blogging on my end will be mercifully sporadic. I lived for many years in this part of the world during graduate school, and my wife's family hails from Illinois...
According to Rep. John Boehner, my tastes are liberal. And he doesn't have to take it.Boehner has been complaining of late about the changes the Democrats have made to the.
As if the high prices and the fact that I have the greenmarket and Chelsea Market nearby weren't enough, they go and totally misunderstand a basic tenet of Jewish eating..