Archive for the ‘ Food ’ Category
I love the moment when bread first comes out of the oven. The kitchen is hot and filled with the smell of it and, for just a little while, the loaf makes a tiny crackling sound, as if it is resting, at last, after a day and a night of effort. I made this loaf [ READ MORE ]
I’m a big fan of Michael Ruhlman’s new book Ratio and its associated iPhone app. Instead of recipes, as such, it gives ratios for sauces, doughs, batters, custards, stocks, and so forth. Hollandaise, for example, is given as: five parts butter, one part egg yolks, and one part liquid (a reduction of vinegar and aromatics). [ READ MORE ]
I walked out of work in a foul mood this evening. And it mostly remained foul until I saw these figs. I ate at least two on the way home then drank a beer while I stuffed them with goat’s cheese and wrapped them in prosciutto. A couple of minutes in the oven and then [ READ MORE ]
I love cooking at home on Saturday afternoons. Particularly in summer when the kitchen is sunny and the herbs on my kitchen windowsill are going nuts. It is even a little too hot today and the shutters are closed to stop the basil from keeling over. Walking to the markets in the morning to find [ READ MORE ]
I’m thinking about starting a regular round-up of newspaper headlines that state the bleeding obvious. Here are a few for starters: New York Times: U.S. Faces Resentment in Afghan Region Salon: Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot The Age: Kidman still among Hollywood’s top earners How to eat a giant snail. Now that [ READ MORE ]
I made tomato chutney this afternoon. I used to make it quite regularly but once a huge jar smashed everywhere and picking shards of glass and kilos of chutney out of everything in the fridge put me off it for ages. This time I put it in an old Illy coffee tin, just to be [ READ MORE ]
There are some combinations of food that seem far greater than the sum of their parts. That is not to say I don’t like radishes, or bread, or butter, or salt alone. Only that together they are something magic. I like to chill the radishes in iced water then slice them thinly. Best is with [ READ MORE ]
When I first began writing this blog I wanted it to be about two things that interest me: food and politics. After writing a few posts about politics, however, I began to feel it would be incongruous to all of a sudden begin writing about food and eating. So I never did. And I’ve been [ READ MORE ]
The Guardian this morning reports on “Britain’s biggest single killer.” A “deadly” threat that is “putting … lives at serious risk.” Is it terrorism? Climate change? Gun violence? No. Despite rhetoric worthy of a tabloid discussion of immigration, it seems all The Guardian is shrieking about is butter. And, more specifically, a nefarious plot by [ READ MORE ]
I always knew macaroni and cheese in a box was wrong. Thanks to Seb Meyer and Jean Hannah Edelstein for the picture[ READ MORE ]
World leaders gathered in Japan this week for what many have dubbed the “world food shortages summit”. It is hard to know whether those assembled found it odd, or even disturbing that discussions of global food shortages should be interrupted by a four course lunch and then an eight course dinner. We can only speculate [ READ MORE ]
A guest post from the most excellent Jean Hannah Edelstein. I confess: even when this very worthy blog was launched, I was until today sceptical of the scope of the intersection of food and politics. With the exception of Hillary’s cookies and that time that George HW expressed his massive distaste for broccoli, how expansive could it be? [ READ MORE ]
Until someone told me it wasn’t actually meant to be ironic, one of my favourite traditions of recent American politics has always been the Family Circle cookie competition. First appearing as a showdown between the respective chocolate chips of Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush, the competition’s most recent iteration saw Laura Bush’s Oatmeal-Chocolate Chunk narrowly [ READ MORE ]
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