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This blog focuses on the cuisine of America during the 18th and 19th centuries. The author, Sarah Lohman, is an amazing woman who provides her readership not only with scintillating prose, but also includes video of her cooking in her apartment in Queens. Her thesis was to create a temporary restaurant reinterpreting historic [...]

I have an acquaintance that has a habit of making updates in the form of a list so that he can cover a multitude of topics in a compact space. Taking my cue from his form, this part of the update will be in the form of a list.

The feast menu and notes [...]

I suffered from what most women of my generation suffer from; we don’t know how to cook because we didn’t learn from our moms. The foods that our great-grandparents, or grandparents, and our parents cooked is not being held onto and those food traditions are slowly vanishing.
Food and culture are hopelessly intertwined and as [...]

I had the pleasure of taking a breadmaking class from Larry Lagatutta, owner and head baker at Enrico Biscotti in the Strip District. It started with the class participants sitting around a long table sharing a divine breakfast of: roasted vegetables; hard cheeses; spaghetti and meatballs; biscotti; misc. baked goods; beans and greens with [...]

Recently I was sent a link to an article about a very interesting study done in England that identified that food taste in that country was as unique and identifiable by region as accents. The why for this was quite varied and some of it struck me as a bit of a stretch such [...]

This past week was a week where I was not feeling it as far as blogging goes. The week before that took a lot out of me and I fell behind on basic house maintenance and self-care. Last week was more about making my environment comfortable than about food and food blogging, which is sometimes [...]

Eating responsibly should include some thought towards waste. What is more wasteful than only eating bits and pieces of an animal that has been slaughtered on our behalf? There is a new movement towards nose-to-tail eating that is gaining steam in the environment of American frugal-chic. It wastes nothing and offal [...]

Recently, Channon Mondoux, owner of Renaissance Cuisine, produced a eCookbook Celebration at the Sarayi which is a collection of sixteenth century Turkish recipes.
Recently, WBEZ in Chicago interviewed Channon about her eCookbook and she provided an amazing tour of Turkish culture and cuisine along with information about her latest work.
Go to Chicago Public Radio’s “Chicago Amplified” [...]

You’ve all seen them. Vikings in full regalia, whispering to each other and sneaking outside in large groups. The whiff of ammonia-tinged breath mints on their breath and the obsessive hand washing. These thrill-seekers are only up to one thing – ingesting Hakaarl. The first experience isn’t pleasant, but they somehow come back to it [...]