Next month I’ll be attending the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in the UK. Each year, this conference on food, its culture, and its history focuses on a different theme; this year it’s Cured, Fermented, and Smoked Foods. Living in a New York City apartment, the temperature and humidity of which is difficult to [...]
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The Kind of Pickle You Want To Get Into
Posted in Farmers' Market Cooking, Food History, Ingredients, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2010, recipes, Traditional Foodways, tagged cucumbers, Food History, homemade pickles, jewish food, kosher dill pickles, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2010, recipe on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bagel Stories
Posted in Food History, recipes, Traditional Foodways, tagged bagel makers union, bagels, jewish food, recipe, thai bagel makers on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stories make the best condiments. Just think of how many times you’ve tucked into a favorite dish with friends or family and commenced reminiscing about past eating experiences. Maybe it’s the one your uncle Howie tells about the neighborhood bakery that made the best bagels and phenomenal seeded rye and sadly closed down years ago, [...]