Wild chestnut trees have flourished in southern Europe since the ancient Greeks brought them from Asia Minor and the Romans spread them throughout their empire. For thousands of years poor subsistence farmers in that part of the world extended their crops with wild foods like chestnuts. In addition to roasting or boiling them, chestnuts were [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Thanksgiving’
Chestnuts: Famine Food on the Holiday Table
Posted in Festival Cooking, Food as Anthropology, Food History, Ingredients, recipes, Traditional Foodways, tagged cake, castagnaccio, chestnut flour, chestnuts, dessert, famine food, gluten-free, Italian food, recipe, Thanksgiving, vegan on November 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Is Slow Food Really Slow? Pumpkin Pie
Posted in Farmers' Market Cooking, Food History, recipes, Traditional Foodways, tagged fresh pumpkin, pumpkin pie, recipes, slow food, Thanksgiving on November 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Is Slow Food Really Slow?” is a series here on Comestibles in which we explore the hypothesis that some of the processes many modern home cooks have declared too time consuming are a lot easier than the admen would have us believe. Everybody panic! It’s the great pumpkin shortage of 2009! I, for one, am [...]
Preventing Scurvy at Thanksgiving
Posted in Farmers' Market Cooking, recipes, tagged brussels sprouts, green vegetables, recipes, Thanksgiving on November 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ah yes, the traditional Thanksgiving menu; let’s assemble the parade of protein and starch shall we? Turkey (of course!) with some kind of stuffing usually involving bread; mashed potatoes, or a creamy, cheesy, potato gratin; sweet potatoes, (no, they are not yams!) with or without marshmallows, as you like; maybe some preparation of turnips or [...]
