The Best To You Each Morning: The Cereal In America Story
The inclusion of a bowl of cereal doused with milk in the breakfast ritual as practiced in the West is of relatively recent vintage.
Tagged: food
Glorious Violence: How to Prepare and Deconstruct 19th Century Poverty Food
Apocryphal stories of Maine prisoners and John Adams aside, the very real fact that lobster was, until relatively recently, a poverty food.
Booper McCarthy and the Great Chicken Truck Rescue
“That is all well and good,” I said. “But how can one discern the wings of a right-wing dominant chicken from a left-wing dominant chicken?”
Sunday Morning! The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola about the Paris food market is crammed full of enough tasty detail to make your mouth water. It was Antony Bourdain’s favorite novel and Zola’s favorite of his own. Let’s eat.
Fight With You At The Cheesecake Factory, You Know I Hate It There
I do not care for, enjoy, or want to ever again go to Cheesecake Factory. The factory part renders the cheesecake part an unavailing ruckus.
Weekend Plans Post: Relearning What My Grandparents Knew About Oatmeal, Of All Things
As I grew up, I learned the occasional joy of oatmeal as a hot breakfast that sticks to your ribs.
Food, or Eating Your Beans and Cornbread Thankfully Like An Adult
For the sake of not talking politics for a moment, let us indulge ourselves of this social media food outrage du jour.
Yann’s Hot Dog Stand, Chocolate Milk, and Hometown Tradition
Ketchup? Mr. Yann is the “no soup for you” guy of the hot dog world. “NO KETCHUP. NO RELISH. NO CHEESE. DON’T ASK.”
Non-Doomsday Prepping: In a Jam
Disclaimer – I am a terrible person who likes to live life on the edge by doing things millions of people did all the time in the past.
Best Meal Ever Week: Lamb Vindaloo in Middle Earth
There’s always one meal I return to: a lamb vindaloo in a random restaurant near our hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Best Meal Ever Week: Indulging in Food Memories
It was one of those moments where musician and music, setting and atmosphere collide and time stands still.
Best Meal Ever Week: Grandma and The Best Cooking Lesson Ever
Not long after my cooking lesson with grandma, I tried it on my own…but the real test would be what my dad had to say about it.
The Best Meal I Ever Had: Lobster Risotto
What I wouldn’t give to go back to that restaurant on the ocean and relive that night. To truly savor that one perfect meal…
Can You Housewife Your Way Out of Poverty?
Don’t put YOUR unreasonable expectations onto the backs of the working poor. They’ve already got enough to carry.
Weekend Plans Post: Lime Cilantro Rice (Illustrated)
So all weekend we’re going to have burritos with lime cilantro rice, burrito bowls with lime cilantro rice, maybe a bowl of lime cilantro rice…
Downwind And East: The People And Cuisine Of Downeast Maine
Like the lobsters once were on the beaches, wild blueberries in Downeast Maine are everywhere, found on roadsides and driveways and in untended fields.
