It isn’t crazy that this morning — on the first real snowy morning of the new year, with three inches of snow on the ground, having just come in from shoveling the front steps — I churned two batches of ice cream. It’s not crazy at all. Not in the least. I mean it. The […]
I’m sick. Again. For the second time this month. I don’t want to make too much of it, because two colds in a month is hardly a sign that the world is coming to an end. But it means bad sleep, and daytime raggedness, and not wanting to do a whole lot of anything. And […]
Standing by the counter at Godshall’s Poultry, waiting for my number to be called, I found myself chatting with the woman ahead of me in line. Like me, she had come for stock-making provisions — pieces and parts, cheap bits, to populate her pot. She pointed the poultry man in the direction of the necks […]
I have, as you may have guessed about me already, a great deal of sympathy for ham obsession. I have myself, on a number of occasions, made the circuit in Philadelphia from the Reading Terminal Market, to the Di Bruno Brothers, to Claudio’s, looking for just the right crudo to pair with scallops, or melon, […]
Food blogging will recommence shortly, with a new guest post, and with some extensive musings from me about the legs of pigs. But for now, you may consider this my Christmas card to all of you. These images are from the interior of the Antoni Gaudí designed Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, […]
I can’t say that I’m much of a C. S. Lewis fan. His writing for adults has never much grabbed me. And being neither a Christian, nor someone who read the books as a child, I have a limited appreciation for The Chronicles of Narnia. At best. But I do owe C. S. Lewis one […]
A full post, including a recipe for Christmas cookies that are not these, will be forthcoming in the next couple of days. For now, you’ll have to content yourself with this teaser: Enjoy!
Sarah and I have a grand weekend tradition of eating breakfast out. We’ve been doing it almost as long as we’ve been together. First, it was at the Original Mel’s in Berkeley, then the Runcible Spoon in Bloomington, and now … it’s wherever we can manage here in Philadelphia. We’re fans of restaurant dining, generally […]
I have not written here about the Occupy movement, or about very much else to do with politics either, in part because I had conceived of this space pretty narrowly. And though the masthead reads Cooking, Eating, Politics, just cooking and eating seemed like more than enough to deal with. But given recent events in […]
**Update, November 24, 2011, 10:25PM: Thanksgiving went off without a hitch. Despite my earlier chafing against holiday orthodoxy, it was, perhaps, the most traditional Thanksgiving I have ever made. And it was tasty. And it was well received. And a good time was had by all. For those of you who were there — thanks […]