Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Julia Child’s memoir, My Life in France begins with a description of the “most exciting meal of [her] life.” (19) Child recounts the restaurant La Couronne in the Norman countryside where she enjoys her first meal on French soil. Although she is already determined to become a good cook for her husband, this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
According to a March 26th article in the New York Times, Starbucks has recently bought the Coffee Equipment Company of Seattle, the producer of the Clover coffee brewer, in “an effort to concentrate on making better coffee.” This innovative machine –– with controls to customize temperature, water amount, and brewing time to each particular [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just down the street from Hi Rise Bakery is Formaggio Kitchen, a veritable foodie treasure, overflowing with artisanal products. The shop opened in 1978 with the intention of bringing Cambridge a taste of the Old World’s traditional specialties. What began as only a cheese and wine shop has evolved into a three-part, gourmet grocery [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Today is Good Friday, the holiday that precedes Easter and commemorates the Crucifixion. OK, so it isn’t the cheeriest of holidays, but the hot crossed buns are good. These symbols of the cross are a traditional pastry that sweeten this humble day. I remember eating them as a child and enjoying their sticky [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This week is my spring break. I’m spending my precious free time in Huron Village, a quaint neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The area feels reminiscent of an earlier time. The streets are lined with old Victorians and they smell perpetually of lit fireplaces and home cooked meals. No industry supermarkets or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Irasshaimase” is the greeting that welcomes every diner entering a restaurant in Japan. New York’s east village ramen noodle shop, Men Kui Tei, welcomes their predominately Japanese clientele with this same phrase. Its location, at 63 Cooper Square, is in close proximity to both Starbucks and McDonalds and feels about as far away from Japan [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some of the worlds most delicious food traditions take place on the holiday table. Here is an article on Easter’s baked goods from around the world. Baking on Easter is often understated in comparison to the baskets of chocolate eggs and bunnies, but Florence Fabricant of New York Times, shows why these baked goods are worth revisiting.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Check out this book review on James Beard’s “most personal book,” Beard on Food. The recipes at the end are great too!
“In the beginning, there was Beard,”Julia Child famously declared about the paterfamilias of American cooking, an opinion echoed in one way or another by almost all of her contemporaries. And [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
If you find yourself in Louis 649 – a tiny jazz club tucked away near the corner of Ave. C and 9th St. – don’t order a Cosmopolitan. If you do, you’re sure to get a disappointed look, and a patient but nonnegotiable refusal. You won’t find Stoli Blueberry, Strawberry, or Chocolate in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
“Maybe heaven isn’t a slice of deep-dish apple pie. But death and food are inextricably linked, regardless of what you believe about the hereafter. Where there is grief, there is food—and usually lots of it.” (Karen Herzog, quoted by Thursby in Funeral Festivals in America)
I find the funeral banquet one of the most [...]
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