These three cookbooks are the kind you take out thinking you’ll have a cup of tea and look for something to do with two pounds of cod. An hour later you’re still leaning on the counter with the tea kettle whistling dry.
November, 2010
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Weekend Pick:
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010Solar Cooking
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Maybe more important than solar-powered vehicles, solar cookers could improve nutrition in poverty-stricken regions, drastically limit global deforestation, and take a bite out of global warming and global dimming. That’s immediate. Indirectly, solar cooking could positively affect a region’s agricultural and therefore its economic well-being.
Baharat and Dukkah. The Spice Route.
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
These are my two workhorse kitchen ingredients right now: Baharat and Dukkah, Turkish and Egyptian spice blends available at Sofra, Ana Sortun’s delightful breakfast, lunch and wonderful-little-treat place that serves a casual version of her Eastern European inspired cuisine. She serves her fine dining version across Cambridge at Oleana.
Weekend Pick
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Chard and Ricotta Tart, a “something new’ Thanksgiving offering
Monday, November 15th, 2010
When I learned that David Tanis, the chef for six months of the year at Chez Panisse, and the author of my until-two-days-ago favorite cookbook, A Platter of Figs and other recipes, had written another, I just bought it. I didn’t check Amazon for reviews or twitter for comments. I wasn’t waiting until Christmas. This book was a confident “one-click.” Click to continue »
Weekend Pick
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Cranberries & Native American ice cream, sort of
Monday, November 8th, 2010
I went to my hometown on Cape Cod recently searching for an old wild cranberry bog I thought I remembered. I couldn’t find the wild bog; where I thought it had been was a forest of gray-barked saplings, but all the commercial cranberry bogs that as a young girl I had galloped my horse around were still there.
Shameless Product Endorsement.
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Almost everyday around 11:30 a.m., I examine my refrigerator’s lunch options, choices such as: Click to continue »
Weekend Pick
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Alexandra’s Bread: images and a cup of coffee
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
“I’d rather talk to you about my coffee,” Baker/owner Jon Hardy of Alexandra’s Bread in Gloucester, MA., said, probably only because he’d been baking bread all day, and he only makes one cup of coffee a day – for himself at 4:30 in the morning. Click to continue »
