To all of you out there who are cooking or being cooked for — to all of you who are hosting or being hosted, this year — I’d like to wish you a safe, delicious, happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a great time with turkey, and family, and stuffing, and pie. I know […]
Call it a gobbler, a motherclucker, even Big Bird (if you’re a certain, recently-former presidential candidate). I’ll know what you mean. Turkey is the centerpiece of almost every Thanksgiving meal. And it’s the centerpiece of stress — believe me, I know — for more than a few holiday cooks. For first-time turkey-cookers, the problem is […]
It’s strangely appropriate, I thought as I was roasting pumpkins, that the making of this soup has required something borrowed (vegetable stock) and something blue (my good old trusty Dutch oven). After all, the reason why I am able to plan ahead this year — the reason why I am able to offer you some […]
Alright, folks. After some long weeks of travel, of stormy weather, of presidential elections, of blog posts that are decidedly not about food — I have this one for you. Today’s experiment is baked chicken — salt and pepper chicken — and I can’t actually take credit for it. A couple of years ago, I […]
David Gay is an independent scholar in Folklore and Medieval Studies who writes about folktales, romances, and the historical ethnography of Europe, in addition to political and economic issues. I am a Quaker and a socialist. The two are very much intertwined in my mind, because they show me both how to move through this […]
Go vote! Seriously. If you’re in the United States, and you haven’t already, today is your day. Carry out your civic duty. Get one of those nifty stickers. Show it off to your friends, your family, your co-workers. And tell them to get up, get energized, and go vote too! I just talked to the […]
All you Twice Cooked readers out there in the United States: Tuesday is election day. So go vote. If you are a citizen of the United States, voting is neither just your right, nor just your privilege — it is your patriotic duty. Voting in elections is not the only way that we Americans express […]
So this happened: I was away at the meetings of the American Folklore Society — in New Orleans, of all places — and well-sheltered from the storm. But Sarah was here in Philadelphia. And from my relative proximity, I had ample opportunity to worry — to imagine her ambling about a heath, blustering, with only […]
Right then, here’s how it goes: we’re now officially three quarters of the way through debate season. We’re less than three weeks away from the November 6th election. And team Obama, and team Romney, are talking up a storm. With — lets say — varying levels of specificity, both candidates have been eager to talk […]
Interestingly enough, today’s experiment is equally at home with tea and jam, or with fried chicken and greens. This, I suppose, is a product of my peculiar relationship with biscuits. Or maybe more accurately, my biscuits’ peculiar relationship with scones. As you read through this recipe, the most perceptive of you (dear readers!) will likely […]