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Category Archives: Food for Thought
Good Better Best
We had a local (upstate New York) discussion last week about Rogue River Blue, chosen as the world’s best cheese at the 2019/20 World Cheese Awards. Two respected friends and food lovers concurred that was their favorite cheese and wished … Continue reading
The food groups of Facebook
“I came home and saw my dad hard at work mincing meat on the wooden chopping board. If my dad’s cooking it’s going to be good. He spent a long time in the kitchen today and I didn’t know exactly … Continue reading
Food for Thought: Gastro Obscura Recreating Ancient Recipes
Gastro Obscura: Recreating Ancient Recipes. We are long time readers of the Gastro Obscura website devoted to arcane food cultures and history, and we noticed they have started offering virtual “experiences” in these times of less getting together in person. Recreating … Continue reading
Food for Thought: Dainty Desserts for Dainty People
Dainty Desserts for Dainty People is available for download from archive.org, aka The Wayback Machine. It won’t cost you a penny, though you should consider making a contribution to support their work and help insure such treasures continue to be … Continue reading
Vintage recipes from Milwaukee Library
We stumbled on a remarkable and little-known (judging from the Google search results) resource for mid century recipes: The Historical Recipe Archive of the Milwaukee Public Library. The home page pretty much says it: “For over 20 years, from the … Continue reading
Posted in Eating, Food for Thought, Food Heroes
Tagged 1950s, 50s, Milwaukee, mom, vintage
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Questionable recipes and threatening aspics
The pandemic makes strange bedfellows, as evidenced by three Facebook groups we’ve been following recently. Each is an attempt to explore an obscure avenue of our current and former foodways, and each features roughly equal quantities of commentators who like … Continue reading
To cook a rabbit
Our freezer died the other day and, due to pandemic shortages, we had to buy a smaller one and defrost a number of items for immediate consumption. The package pictured above was one of those items. It was purchased from … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Food for Thought
Tagged Julia Child, pandemic, rabbit, tastes like chicken
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Food for Thought: Myra Waldo Complete Book of Oriental Cooking
We have published a couple of recipes from Myra Waldo’s grandiosely-titled paperback, and when we went looking for another in our tattered copy its page was missing. That led us to Amazon.com (affiliate link!) where we were surprised to discover … Continue reading
Food for Thought: The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food
The Rise is not so much a cookbook as a celebration of Black chefs and their contribution to American culture, and we get to participate by making their food. This is a book you are not likely to put down … Continue reading
Food for Thought: Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine
We purchased a used copy of the 1991 edition of Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine soon after acquiring a closeout bread machine circa 2010. The recipes were creative and the several that we executed turned out well. In … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Cooking, Food for Thought
Tagged Ashland, bread, bread machine
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