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Gherkins & Tomatoes

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"Gherkins & Tomatoes: Writing Journeys into the World" covers the world of food, culinary history, and rare old cookbooks. Pull up your keyboard and enjoy the trip!

• Added on: Aug 18th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Cynthia Bertelsen
• Listed in: World Cuisine History
• Tags: recipes cooking cookbooks food history international cuisine culinary history

Recent Posts

• Idylls of Cuisine, #39

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 07:00 in Photography, baking, food photography, pans

  [A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] Today’s post is number 500! Posted in Baking, Photography Tagged: Baking, Food Photography, Pans ...

• Why Cookbooks?

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 07:00 in cookbooks, adam gopnik, culinary history, critic's corner, literature and food

  Why on earth so many cookbooks, when no one cooks? Or do they? Read Adam Gopnik’s thoughts in the latest food issue of The New Yorker. He starts out by saying Handed-down wisdom and worked-up information remain the double piers of a cook’s li...

• Feasting in State: Obama’s First Real State Dinner

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 07:00 in United States, china, Barack Obama, thanksgiving, White House, manmohan singh, marcus samuelsson, state dinner, state dinners

  President and Mrs. Obama at Governors' Dinner, February 2009 (Reuters) In the next week, we will see real-time examples of a few of the different types of feasts common to American culture: Thanksgiving — essentially a harvest feast tinged ...

• Scaling Back, Nothing Fishy About It!

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 07:00 in food news, Editorials

  To all the wonderful readers of “Gherkins & Tomatoes”: I would like to let you know that starting this week (11/16/2009), I will be temporarily posting two times a week — likely on Mondays and Thursdays, with a picture or a new ...

• The Feat of Feasting

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 08:50 in weddings, thanksgiving, feasts, menus, italian cooking, medicis, locavores, local foods, feasting, american cooking

  One cannot both feast and become rich. Ashanti Proverb Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi (1605) “Feasting,” for all practical purposes, appears to be the antonym of “hunger.” And yet, feasting is rife (ripe?) with teeming contradictions and ritua...

• Idylls of Cuisine, #38

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 07:00 in art, Photography, food, giovanni bellini, feast of the gods

  [A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] Posted in Art, Photography Tagged: Art, Feast of the Gods, Food, Giovanni Bellini ...

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