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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!
Recent Posts
Idylls of Cuisine, #39
[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?
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
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!
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
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
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] Posted in Art, Photography Tagged: Art, Feast of the Gods, Food, Giovanni Bellini ...

