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Latke Recipe
Business and Technology —
Authority: 126
Latke Recipe Latke Recipe - : When once asked to come up with baked latkes that tasted as good as fried, she tried. But I ended up throwing all the recipes in the garbage, she said. Another reason for the fried latke’s persistence: oil isn’t just a cooking Improving On The Latke - Well Blog - NYTimes.com: ...11 hours ago -
Now This is How to Package Christmas Gifts
Ramblingspoon.com || Karen Coates —
Authority: 119
If I could, I’d have a lemon tree in my backyard. Can’t. Too cold. Instead, I have the next best thing: a mother-in-law, with her own Meyer lemon tree in her own backyard, who sends gift boxes stuffed with the lively little orbs. Yesterday, our mail carrier left a package at the door. Inside were several neatly ...1 day ago -
Vintage graham butter-scotch cookie recipe
Joy of Desserts —
Authority: 112
Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers. Youre invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage . I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe ...2 days ago -
Grimsby Smoked Fish
Selectism.com —
Authority: 651
Having thrilled readers with the story of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie earlier in the week, it seems appropriate to introduced another British food with Protected Geographical Indication Status. Grimsby, a seaport town in Lincolnshire, has a long and celebrated tradition of fish smoking. Recognized by the EU only ...2 days ago -
More ur-food toasted flours
Rachel Laudan —
Authority: 418
Soon I want to introduce another of these toasted ground ur-foods that is still used in parts Europe, the Caribbean and South America. But for now, from readers, toasted ground chia, toasted ground soy beans? More ur-food toasted flours. From Margaret Conover . But what about chia seed? Most of what I’ve read ...3 days ago -
Beajoulais, still (relatively) Nouveau
Petit Pois —
Authority: 103
The French take their fun very seriously, particularly during the orchestrated bacchanal of Beaujolais Nouveau. At midnight on the third Thursday of November, bottles of new-vintage Gamay are opened in the wine-producing villages of France’s central Beajoulais region. By the next evening, the wine has arrived in ...3 days ago -
Bring Back the Buffalo
Ramblingspoon.com || Karen Coates —
Authority: 119
View of the rice fields around Doi Saket, in northern Thailand. In winter, northern Thailand wakes to a cloak of fog. Cool mountain air flushes down the mountains through dry, golden valleys. Straw hats bob through the fields as men, women and children stoop to the earth. It’s rice harvest season, but it’s not ...4 days ago -
Bread, beer and agriculture
Rachel Laudan —
Authority: 418
Last week Onkel Bob posted a long response to my post, Bread first or beer first? A bad question . He made several interesting points but the most important point, to which he kept returning, was “How did agriculture start at all?” or “What prompted widespread fields?” That’s an interesting question. But ...4 days ago -
The Historical Place of Sugar and Honey
Accidental Hedonist —
Authority: 119
At the suggestion of my publisher, my initial idea of a book about chocolate has evolved into a broader subject which may or may not evolve into a book of some sort. So for the past week or so, Ive been immersing myself into the history and anthropology of sweets in order to write a passable book proposal. During ...4 days ago -
If you were a muleteer…pinole and other roasted powders
Rachel Laudan —
Authority: 418
Muleteers were not people I’d thought about much until a few years ago. Yet 14,000 mules worked the silver mines in the eighteenth century in Guanajuato where I now live. That at least was the estimate of Henry George Ward in his book Mexico in 1827 . 14, ooo mules is a lot of mules. Some were in the mines. ...5 days ago -
A Jolly Olde Christmas Redux
Leites Culinaria —
Authority: 429
When on Christmas morning Scrooge wanted to mend his ways, he sent an errand boy to buy the biggest turkey available, “not the little prize turkey, the big one.” In Victorian times, as today, nothing said holiday like a big roast, and Scrooge’s surprise for the Cratchit family conveys the ultimate in ...5 days ago -
Scrapple Flame Wars of 1872
Mike's Musings —
Authority: 111
MetaFilter points to an entry from the New York Times of a few days back that reports on an incident of angry letter-writing in the Times in the late 1800s. " The Way We Ate: The Great Scrapple Correspondence of 1872 " recounts a discussion of scrapple , our regional "delicacy," in the Times letters. It all started ...5 days ago -
Black Forest Cafe and the “Too Fat Polka”
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub —
Authority: 575
Foray to the Container Store a success, the question: What to do about dinner? Kathryn asked, “How about that little German joint in back of Half Price Books?” The Black Forest Cafe and Bakery. Legendary for its Black Forest Cake. For years it had a small shop inside the “mother ship” of Half Price ...5 days ago -
Corn syrup "more deadly than terrorism"; eat maple
Joy of Desserts —
Authority: 112
Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers. Youre invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage . I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe ...1 week ago -
Sacrifice revisited
Rachel Laudan —
Authority: 418
Following up several comments, thanks all of you. Burning bones. Bones have to be heated to a high temperature to get them going, but then they burn well. Mammoth bones were fuel in the Ice Age when other fuels were hard to come by. Bones burn when bodies are cremated. Ash. The Greeks saved the ash from the ...1 week ago -
Where Is All The Gingerbread...??
Coffee with the Hermit —
Authority: 422
One thing I remember from my early years, is the gingerbread at holiday time. I especially liked the gingerbread men. I think there were probably some gingerbread women as well...but I dont remember the gender of the cookies being of any particular importance at the time! I think we were mostly taken by the various ...1 week ago -
the anti-vagina complex
gimcrack hospital (PG) —
Authority: 465
In the Western Highlands of New Guinea many men believe that female sexuality is potent and dangerous. They think that prolonged contact with women can make their bones dissolve, and lead to debilitation and even death. “As one might expect, the terror of women’s contamination focuses on the vagina. ...1 week ago -
The sacrificial feast? A nice little sideline for the priests?
Rachel Laudan —
Authority: 418
To what extent do you think that whole sacrifice thing was just nice little sideline for keeping the priests well fed? And, by extension, their flock, once the priests had had their fill. That’s what Jeremy asks. Don’t psychologists say that their three great unanswered questions are sleep, laughter, and ...1 week ago -
Kumquat (Κουμκουάτ)
Organically cooked —
Authority: 118
"Hey guys!" My American-Greek colleague had just come into the office after taking summer leave for two weeks. "Guess where Ive come back from!"Eirini had been planning this trip for a long time. She had decided not to tell us where she was going, but promised us, in that good Greek manners style of hers, that she ...2 weeks ago -
Yeah, it’s ironic (hacked e-mails and global warming)
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub —
Authority: 575
James’s Empty Blog : It is hard to miss the irony in people eagerly poring through illegally-obtained private email, looking for ethical breaches by the writers! I’m sure we can all imagine the outrage if one of the emails revealed that a scientist had hacked into one of the sceptics’ computers and was reading ...2 weeks ago
