Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Caturday Night Fevah
Posted in Eating, Uncategorized, tagged Cats, Caturday, Food on July 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sonnets: Let Not My Food Love Be Called Idolatry
Posted in Eating, Food, tagged Food, Food Poetry on July 8, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Well rounded bagel with
Cream cheese and sable
Green capers and onions (red)
No fish tale nor withered nasturtium bud
Considers this swallow their bed.
Hanatsubomi, hanayu? Yuzu you are, till eaten.
As farro! O farro!
Creeps into lasagna
(Ancient as Zeus’ old bolt)
Kakigori clouds delicately
Fall freezing
And the soft bun’d hot dogs onion-ly emote.
There was a river!
It was the Hudson
But I saw my [...]
Et Voila! (Or . . . So Okay, I Ate a Little)
Posted in American Food, Eating, Food, tagged Eating, Food, New York City Dining on July 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A sable special at Murray’s bagels
A box of wagashi, including one like the one above
Farro lasagna
Kakigori which froze my tongue so much that when I talked near the end of it I sounded drunk
Hot dogs with lots of ‘Greek-style’ onions and papaya drinks
Waterfront dining above at SouthWest
Katz’s and the ever-so-gently pickled pickles are so good
Hungarian [...]
Food Fear: Trust your food about as far as you can throw it
Posted in Food Culture, Food Politics, tagged Food, Food Fear on June 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Lots of people have food fears lately. With good reason, too. Once in a while there are outbreaks of nasty things that do immediate damage within our food systems. Our fast foods and convenience foods are loaded with tricky ingredients that apparently make people unable to stop eating them while slowly their weight ballons and [...]
Picnic!
Posted in Cooking, Recipes, tagged Food, Online Picnic, Picnic Recipes on June 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Is there ever a time when a cloth should not be spread out on the grass, after carefully kicking away the small stones and bits of leaves and tiny branches, hoping that for once, for only once – the laying-about will be as comfortable as seemingly promised, the food will not spill sideways or be [...]
The Winged Pig
Posted in Food Culture, Food History, tagged Alphabet, Food, Pigs, Poetry, Pork on June 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The sturdy letter ‘A’ starts the alphabet and so we must begin with sturdy things. For a piggy alphabet ‘angel’ will not do. Instead we must go straight to ‘animelles’. Animelles are a part of the piggy but not a part of the sow. But more on this later, perhaps. It has been a difficult [...]
Pigs, Unblanketed
Posted in Culinary, tagged Alphabet, Eating, Food, Pig, Pork on June 20, 2009 | 14 Comments »
What is a pig, as far as food goes? The alphabet pertaining to pig in Bruno’s Cantus Circaeus is more esoteric than practical, for most purposes. And rather unkind, too! My own philosophy of pigs is much like Grimod de la Reyniere’s.
Everything in a pig is good. What ingratitude has permitted his name to become [...]
In a pig’s eye (and whatever else strikes your fancy)
Posted in Food, tagged Cantus Circaeus, Cooking, Eating, Food, Learning, Memory, Pork on June 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
‘In a pig’s eye’ is an American colloquialism meaning ‘not a chance in hell’. I’ve never heard anyone actually use it, but it does pop into my mind once in a while.
Rote memorization of facts someone else thinks go together because they were told at one time to memorize them sometimes strikes me as worthy [...]
Fruit, Apron, Poem, Recipe
Posted in Cooking, Culinary, Food, tagged Food, Poetry, Recipe Writing on June 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Take one part poem (in this case Christopher Marlowe). Add fruit, other ingredients, slip on apron and stir well. Voila! Recipe.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies;
A cap of flowers and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair [...]
On The Virtues of One and Keeping the Pastisio Fires Burning
Posted in Food Literature, Global Food Culture, tagged Cookbooks, Craig Claiborne, Food, Pastisio on June 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The New York Times International Cookbook ‘by’ Craig Claiborne is among my small gathering of long-time book companions. I put the quote marks there because I’m not sure I see Craig anywhere in the book, aside from a preface where he lists a zillion names and gives thanks to a large city.
This is a [...]
See Real Serial Cereal
Posted in Food Art, Food Culture, Food History, tagged Cereal, Food, Food Images on June 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Eating Something to Understand It
Posted in Cooking, Eating, Food Culture, Food History, tagged Food, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Zoophagy on June 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
No, I’m not suggesting that you eat the refrigerator – I was just looking for an excuse to use the illustration. But it does raise the question of whether we ‘understand’, or know, or experience, our food in the same way if that food is an icy plastic-covered super-industrialized product created by a corporation for [...]
Style – Resolved: Ramps, Passé. Creasy Greens, New!
Posted in American Food, Cooking, Food Culture, Seasonal Foods, tagged Creasy Greens, Food, Foraging, Gardening, Greens, Ramps, Vegetables on May 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions. (Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers -1970)
Ramps. I’m sick and tired of ‘em. You hear about them here there and everywhere. They are the new Darlings (or rather they are hanging on [...]
Hungry? Or Merely Hubris-y: Rhino on the Table
Posted in Eating, Food Culture, Food History, Global Food Culture, tagged Bush Meat, Exotic Meat, Food, Rhinoceros, Wild Game on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Like any other thing we eat, there is the question of ‘why’? Why do we eat this particular thing? Do we eat it because we are really hungry? Or do we eat it because it just happens to be in front of us and available to eat? Or maybe simply because it happens to be [...]
Who Loves Ya, Baby? (Can the Rhinoceros-as-Dinner Be Something One Loves?)
Posted in Food Culture, tagged Eating, Food, Rhinoceros on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In studies of food and culture one fact crops up time and again: We do not like what the ‘others’ eat. We only like what ‘we’ eat. That is, until the ‘others’ become lovable to us in some way – acceptable companions at table. As the rhinoceros comes to the table to be eaten, it [...]
What They Don’t Tell You About Eating Rhinoceros
Posted in Eating, tagged Food, Food Poetry, Rhinoceros, Taste on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What they don’t tell you about eating rhinoceros is that before you take your first bite it is vitally important to know the beast! This is true of anything one eats. How can the taste of a thing be known if the sound of the word representing it is unknown, or if the look of [...]
Hijinks on the Menu – Ready Your Tumblers and Aprons!
Posted in Food Culture, Food History, Games to Play at Dinner, tagged Aprons, Drinking Games, Food, Hijinks on May 20, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I had promised some hijinks to a friend. But then I had none ready. What to do? Why, put on the hijinks apron and whip some up of course!
As you see I am ready to rock! My apron starched and laundered. And there are seven of me. Just to be sure the job gets done.
What [...]
Tea Studies and a Gypsy Tea Recipe
Posted in Food Images and Music, tagged Food, Herb Tea, Tea, Tea Art on May 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A cup of tea can be many things.
You can make tea from things growing in the fields and hedgerows
Chamomile, which makes a person seek a hammock to lie in, and
fanciful flitterings of furry fennel (please tell ladybug to fly away home, for the usual reason that her ‘house is on fire and her children are [...]
I’ll Have a Violet-Sweet Potato Latte Please
Posted in Culinary, Food, Global Food Culture, tagged Flavor Balances, Food, Latte, Mochi, Strange Food, Sweet Potatoes, Tim Burton, Violet Food on May 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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Radish-Tropia: Life Seen Through the Radish Lens
Posted in Food Art, tagged Food, Food Art, Radishes, Tropes on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I yam what I yam
Ravishing radish
With or without my prurient greens
An unrolled radish gathers no moss
Ivory daikonery statuesquery
Celebrant radishes work and worry
And the Sacred Mother Radish reigns the wrinkled world
White-hearted, wrinkle-headed. Delicious?
Crunchy.
Dill Pickles – But Not To Eat
Posted in American Food, Food, Food Culture, Food History, Food Images and Music, tagged Chet Atkins, Deep-Fried Pickles, Food, Food and Music, Pickles on May 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Watch the dancing pickles then listen to the song!
I’ve heard this song before, often – but never did I know it was called The Dill Pickle Rag!
(Do you think the pickles were deep-fried?)
Katerina la Vermintz: The Peas and Queues of Cookery
Posted in Cooking, Food, tagged Cooking, Food, Katerina la Vermintz, Kitchens, Vintage Illustrations on April 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Greetings to all! It has come to my attention that my esteemed colleagues, Catty Moira and Barry the Dog, believe they are the meow and woof of cookery philosophers, and that is why I am appearing here today. I am busy, busy, busy! and it has been most difficult since I am still stuck permanently [...]
Moira Tuscanaro: A Cat’s Philosophy of Cooking
Posted in Cooking, Food, tagged Cats, Cooking, Food, Moira Tuscanaro on April 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It is Spring, dear ones! And after sifting through the many questions you humans have sent me I find there is one most preponderant, and it is this we will discuss today! Prrrrrrrrrr.
The question is: Moira, why don’t you Cats like to cook?
And I must tell you, this question is about as appealing to me [...]
Spring Means Violets. (Potatoes, that is!)
Posted in Cooking, Culinary, Food, Gastronomy, Seasonal Foods, tagged Cooking, Food, Purple Potatoes, Seasonal Foods on March 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’ve sometimes seen a purple potato
And I always hope to see one
The only remaining question is
Is it better to see or eat one?
Here’s a very interesting recipe: Cod with Lapsang Souchong Oil and Puree of Violettes
Cooking – As It Can Be Cut
Posted in Cooking, Food, Food Culture, Food Images and Music, Global Food Culture, tagged Cooking, Food, Food Images and Music, Restaurant Culture on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If I Only Had a Brain
Posted in American Food, Cooking, Food, Food Art, Food Images and Music, tagged Food, Food Images and Music, Jello Brain, Scarecrows, Wizard of Oz on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For recipe, click on photo.
Welcome to the Jungle
Posted in Eating, Food, Food Images and Music, Sustainable Seafood, tagged Adventure, Food, Food Chain, Food Images and Music, Guns and Roses, JW Buell, Vintage Illustration on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Click here to view J.W. Buell Slideshow of ‘Sea and Land’ by stevelewalready (It’s possible to open this tab along with the music video at the same time . . . if you are so inclined – you’ll have to open another window. I rather enjoy the mix, myself.)
Welcome to [...]
Velveeta and Bob: Destiny and Truffles
Posted in Food, tagged Fiction, Food on March 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
(Part Two of A Tale of Two Lentils )
Velveeta and Bob were a team when they went shopping. Bob was a special sort of dog, with powers beyond the usual sorts. He’d been the runt of a litter born to a well-known television personality bitch who’d co-starred in a 1950’s family comedy show. His mother [...]
I Will Be Fruity in the Right Way.
Posted in Eating, Food, Food Culture, Food Mysteries, tagged Food, Food Healing, Fructology, Fruit on March 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Fructology. Why have I never heard of it before? Related to ayurvedism and humoral type-casting, but solely within the land of fruits.
Throughout the ages, women and men have sought to divine information about their past, present and future from the natural world. Quantum physicists have learnt that all things in the universe are interconnected, thus [...]
It’s Not What You Eat – It’s That You Cook
Posted in Cooking, Eating, Food, Food Media, tagged Cooking, Cooks, Food, Food and Science, Food Culture on February 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yes, I said “that”, not “what”.
Interesting article from The Economist, titled “What’s Cooking” from The American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Please do ignore the obvious capitalized letters and what they state in the shortening of that group’s name).
YOU are what you eat, or so the saying goes. But Richard Wrangham, of Harvard University, [...]
When Food Gets a Life
Posted in Food, Food Literature, Food Symbolism, tagged Food, Food Writing, Haruki Murakami, Literature, Mark Helprin, MFK Fisher on February 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
How do we think of food? We think of it as something to eat, of course. We think of it as pretty pictures on a page – and the growing numbers of food pornographers, both amateur and professional, testifies to the immense hunger existing for viewing food this way.
We think of it as fodder when [...]
A Tale of Two Lentils
Posted in Food, tagged Fiction, Food on February 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Velveeta was a small round woman who didn’t know what to cook. When passing Velveeta on the street you might notice the faint aroma that rose from her – it was the scent of oranges, pickles, vanilla and sealing wax.
Velveeta always wore a sorry-looking old beige trench coat outside, except on rainy weekends. Then she [...]
Glimmer Glitter – Food Masquerades
Posted in Food, tagged Confusion, Food on February 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s happened more than once to me, you know.
Food, pretending to be something else.
Trying to escape my clutches.
Masquerading as whatever it can think of nearby.
It’s like alchemy. Except that it is done by mental waves sent through the air to confuse those who would eat it. Sometimes it is even done by mistake, by the [...]
Big Fish Eat Little Fish – Van der Heyden Views Dinner
Posted in Eating, Food, Food Art, Food Culture, Food Symbolism, Recipes, tagged Food, Food and Philosophy, Food and Proverbs, Food in Art, Lent and Fish on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
‘Big Fish Eat Little Fish’ 1557 – Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Breughel the Elder is, of course, a piece of art that tells a story – a proverbial story. And how vividly it does so!
Here is no paper-tray and cellophane-wrapped water-injected boneless white chicken breast for the distanced senses of the diner. This [...]
Oops. Do excuse me! It’s dear old Svankmajer.
Posted in Eating, Food, Food Art, Food Media, Food Symbolism, tagged Food, Surrealism, Surrealism in Food, Svankmajer on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Wiki Doodle Dandy has this to say about the dear man:
Švankmajer’s trademarks include very exaggerated sounds, often creating a very strange effect in all eating scenes. He often uses very sped-up sequences when people walk and interact. His movies often involve inanimate objects coming alive and being brought to life through stop-motion. Many of his [...]
That Son-of-a-Bitch (Stew) is Calling My Name
Posted in American Food, Cooking, Food, Food Culture, Food History, Global Food Culture, tagged American Culture, Cooking, Cowboy Food, Food, Macho Foods, Memoir, Recipes, Son-of-a-Bitch-Stew, Wild Foods on January 31, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve wanted to make Son-of-a-Bitch Stew since forever.
It’s been so long I’ve wanted to make one that I can’t remember anymore where it was I first even heard of Son-of-a-Bitch Stew. And usually I can trot out the source of any recipe I’ve ever made or heard of because my mind is a [...]
Questions You May Often Have Thought About: Heat vs. Knives
Posted in Polls, tagged Cooking, Food, Kitchen Tools, Kitchens, Polls on January 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Anyone providing reasons for their answers wins extra karmic points in the Great Kitchen Above.
Just click on the little buttons next to your answer to vote.
To view results click on the little button at the bottom where it says that.
Easy as pie! (Easier, even . . .)
Gammon and Spinnage: The Grocery Store
Posted in American Food, Food, Food Culture, tagged American Culture, Food, Gammon and Spinach, Grocery Shopping, Recipe, Words and Phrases on January 29, 2009 | 10 Comments »
“I’m not a banana person. No! No, I’m not a banana person!”
And thus began my trip to the grocery store. A clean well-lighted place, and one that happens to often be entertaining. Today it was particularly so.
The not-a-banana-person was young and blonde. Young-and-Blonde wandered through the produce department, really wishing her boyfriend and all the [...]
What Does Roger Daltry Have to Do With Home on the Range, Cow Patties and Son-of-a-Bitch-Stew?
Posted in American Food, Cooking, Food, Food Culture, Food History, tagged Cooking, Cooking Fuels, Cowboy Cooking, Food, Food History, Son-of-a-Bitch-Stew on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll have to see it to believe it:
Extreme History – Cooking on the Chisholm Trail
Hello I Am a Monkey. How About You?
Posted in Food, Food Culture, Global Food Culture, Seasonal Foods, tagged Chinese New Year, Food, Zodiac Foods on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s good to know what sign you are, to eat accordingly.
BBC GoodFood can help with this. I like what they advise for me.
Happy Chinese New Year!
From Soup to Nuts: More Eating in the 1940’s
Posted in American Food, Cooking, Food, Food Culture, Food History, Food Media, Gastronomy, tagged Banana Pie, Cooking, Food, Food History, Food in the 1940's, Gourmet Magazine, Tino Rossi, Vintage TV Ads, Wild Foods on January 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In this vintage ad from the 1940’s we’ve now discovered how the Chiquita Banana Helps the Pieman – and have also had a fascinating demonstration on how to flute a banana.
But that’s only dessert. ‘Where’s the beef?’ (Clara would ask) – and here it is:
Recipes from Gourmet magazine during the 1940’s, [...]
How Romantic! On Becoming a Chicken Farmer – The Egg and I
Posted in Food, Food Culture, Food Literature, Food Media, tagged American Food Writing, Food, Food Literature, The Egg and I on January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Postscript: A selection from Betty MacDonald’s classic book The Egg and I was one of the featured works included in Molly O’Neills’ American Food Writing – An Anthology with Classic Recipes.
Perfection Salad: Perfect? Or Perfidious.
Posted in American Food, Cooking, Food, Food History, tagged American Food, Cold Foods, Food, Perfection, Vintage on January 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Here is a recipe for perfection salad from a 1905 (Knox Gelatine) book titled ‘Dainty Desserts for Dainty People’.
And here, for dainty people, is the downloadable text of the entire book.
Everything that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment.
Shakespeare: Sonnet 15, 1.1
Lenotre’s Cakes
Posted in Cooking, Culinary, Gastronomy, tagged Food, Gaston Lenotre, Lenotre, Memoir, Pastries and Desserts, Restaurant Culture on January 12, 2009 | 7 Comments »
(This is part 3 of 3 parts – the first two parts of the story are composed of the posts of the previous two days . . . )
This is what Lenotre taught me to make that day.
And that was the day I decided to not quit that job. And it was [...]
Entre Lenotre
Posted in Cooking, Creative Non-Fiction, Culinary, Food, Food Culture, Gastronomy, tagged Chefs, Cooking, Culinary, Food, Gaston Lenotre, Lenotre, Memoir, Pastry Chefs, Professional Cooking, Restaurant Culture, Women in the Kitchen on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Part 2, continued from preceding post)
No reason, really – why I should have been repulsed by that little scene on the table. The Chef was married but then so was the Sous Chef. Inequalities of power happen all the time. The Chef was gorgeous in an older woman sort of way – the thought did [...]
Gaston Lenotre, A Kitchen, A Chef or Two
Posted in American Food, Creative Non-Fiction, Culinary, Food, Food Culture, Gastronomy, tagged Cooking, Food, Gaston Lenotre, Lenotre, Memoir, Pastry Chefs, Professional Cooking, Restaurant Culture, Women in the Kitchen on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some people remember the past through things they ate. Memory, place, time, flavor, people . . . all become woven together into a fabric not to be unravelled.
Just as when in those moments a piece of music will insinuate with its melody an entirely different time, now layered upon the present in a sudden spark, [...]
Gaston Lenotre 1920-2009
Posted in Culinary, Food, Food Culture, Food History, Gastronomy, tagged Chefs, Culianary, Food, Gaston Lenotre, Pastry, Restaurant Culture on January 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Lenotre died today.
And I find myself strangely wordless.
It’s not that I have nothing to say, but rather . . . I may have too much to say – about Lenotre.
I never met him. Yet he was a pivotal person in the path of my life.
If I can place my thoughts into an orderly shape I’ll [...]
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