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Moira Tuscanaro (The Catty Food Astrologer’s) Hot Licks-Foodie Picks from The 2009 Saveur 100 for Your Zodiac Sign

Posted in Contributors, Food Media, Foodie, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The Saveur 100 is a quite marvelous list of Things Foodie. If you think it impossible to try all one hundred in a year for reasons of time or money you might be right.
But more important, in choosing which ones you really should try – is your horoscope sign. The food you choose must fit [...]

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Jingle Foodies: A Quiz on the Foods of the Season

Posted in Cooking, Food Culture, Food History, Food Media, tagged , , , on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

TimesOnline has posted a food quiz quite ornamental to ascertain whether your foodie knowledge is all shining and bright.
The Christmas Food Quiz includes some good questions:
5. Who invented the notion of a frothing soup in the manner of a cappuccino?
a Alain Chapel
b Gordon Ramsay
c Ferran Adria
6. Which chef created a Xmas menu last year where [...]

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The Fireside Cook Book by James Beard – 60th Anniversary Edition

Posted in Book Review, Recipes, tagged , , , , , , , on December 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It startled me to see The Fireside Cook Book peering out from the bookstore shelf. The biggest surprise was how very new the book looked. The editions I’ve seen have been battered and worn, food-speckled, and with the non-shiny essence of the year 1949 – the date when The Fireside Cook Book was published for [...]

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Food Art in Gastronomica

Posted in Food Art, tagged , , , on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »

One of the great things about Gastronomica is that Darra Goldstein knows a lot about art. What I mean to say is that she knows a lot about Art. The good stuff, the stuff that is capitalized, the stuff that is artlessly artful.
Another one of the good things about Gastronomica is that there is a [...]

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Campbell’s Soup Ads as Cultural Definers?

Posted in Food Media, tagged , , on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Mark Twain Eats America – Writ Large and Small(er)

Posted in Food Literature, tagged , , , on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Turtle Soup, anyone?
IN 1879, a homesick Mark Twain sat in an Italian hotel room and wrote a long fantasy menu of all his favorite American foods. The menu began as a joke, with Twain describing the 80-dish spread as a “modest, private affair” that he wanted all to himself. But it reads today as a [...]

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Being a Movie Star Yet Always Cooking the Family Meal

Posted in Food Culture, Food Media, Foodie, tagged , , , , , on September 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Catty Corner with Moira Tuscanaro
As a cat I must say I admire Gwyneth Paltrow. She is cool, elegant, sleek, and can even smile like one of us – which we cats do like to see. And she can act, which is so very much like us too!
Today I learned there is more to Gwyneth than [...]

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