Time for a Switch
Posted on December 6, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized, Work | 2 Comments
As the weather figuratively and literally solidifies as winter, my consumption of hot fluids is unsurpisingly on the rise. I’m a sturdy man with a passion for good coffee, but I simply cannot drink three gallons of the brew every day. Winter time is tea time for me, and until I can go shopping for [...]
Read More..>>The Tart O’ The Bog
Posted on November 21, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
When I decided that I did not, after all, feel compelled to make fresh cranberry and tangerine relish, I made fresh cranberry and tangerine juice instead. It’s quite excellent to be reunited with my juicer; I’ve missed her so. The insistent centrifugal whir of her thousand tiny steel teeth stirs a Pavlovian response in my [...]
Read More..>>Did You Guess The Fish?
Posted on November 18, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of responses to my ichthyological quiz, not one contained the correct answer. This is hardly shocking. The species is more commonly encountered as a filet, either on a plate or sealed and frozen in plastic. I’m not a big fan of food that comes to the kitchen in [...]
Read More..>>Sea Biscuits
Posted on November 12, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Cooking and eating are, for me, two very distinctly seperate pleasures. Queerly enough, the detached tranquility that creativity in the kitchen confers upon me is infrequently accompanied by a desire to eat what has been created. In my little world, the inspiration to cook usually begins with hunger (or, at least the realization that I [...]
Read More..>>Guess the Fish
Posted on November 10, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The marine creature depicted in the image (at nearly actual size) was purchased in Missouri, but she’s originally from China. She’s as common as salmon on American menus these days. Can you guess the fish?
Read More..>>My Other Food Site
Posted on November 1, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
If you’re tired of waiting for me to write another 500 words but enjoy the food photography, I encourage you to visit Articles of Mastication, where I’m publishing images far more frequently than I’m publishing articles at this site. I’ll be cutting loose with my cooking repertoire, going a little more insane with experimentation and [...]
Read More..>>Can? Not!
Posted on October 28, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Anchovies have always been one of my favorite snacks. Before I visited the Adriatic coast, you could often find me huddled over a can of salted anchovies in oil, slurping up the lubricious filets like a terrestrial dolphin with thumbs. The ancient method of salt-curing fish is still employed in Dalmatia, and salted whole anchovies [...]
Read More..>>In Sickness And In Health
Posted on October 27, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I’m feeling a little better and celebrated with a bar of Kraš Novo Lješnjak chocolate and a jar of Nutella. Yeah, that’s a milk chocolate bar filled with hazelnut creme, dipped into chocolate hazelnut spread. If you think that’s redundant, you haven’t tried it. With a combination like that in mouth, one kind of forgets [...]
Read More..>>A Brief Recollection of Malvazija
Posted on October 20, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized, croatia | Leave a Comment
The Istrian region of Croatia is enchanting not only for its magnificent landscapes, Roman and Venetian architecture and heavenly cuisine, but also for its wines. To enjoy Istrian wine is to enter another world of oenophilia. My first encounter was at Rolf and Draženka Moll’s Stancija 1904 on a dark, rainy night in Smoljanci back [...]
Read More..>>Great Neck
Posted on October 19, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Whether grilling, roasting, curing or smoking, Croatians have incredible skills when it comes to preparing meat. I am consistently amazed by what appears to be a near-magical ability to make the flesh of one animal taste like that of another. My friend’s mother makes incredible braised turkey with potato dumplings that tastes like roast pork, [...]
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