I have a friend who’s quite an amazing woman – she blogs about food – and food history, in posts chock-filled with fun and facts. And not only that! Each summer Louise has a picnic. A huge picnic! We each have to choose a letter from the alphabet then bring some food matching the letter. […]
Here’s the compilation of food posts this week from the facebook page linked to this blog ~ More on bottle houses How to make a bottle wall (It starts with just one sip . . .) Here’s a video of a rather pretty bottle house. It is prettier with the sound turned down, or at […]
It’s time to cook. Most particularly it’s time to cook (and then eat the things we cook) (and then talk on for as long as we want about the things we’ve cooked and eaten) from the incitements created by these postcards set down here before us, on this dinner table. There’s no room on this […]
It’s always fascinating to see how many people hunger for the experience of ‘having their own restaurant’. Their imaginations are filled with pretty visions of merrily cooking up a storm in a little place to call their own, where the things they cook will be delivered to the tables of admiring diners who naturally, will […]
It sometimes feels as if this generation (at least here in the United States) invented the idea of food, in many ways. Or perhaps ‘re-invented’ might be the better word. There is a sense of unearthing the primal purity of all that is good and fine, of discarding the cheap and common-place, of a moral […]
