April 2011
7 posts
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“To see food as simply good or bad nutrition also medicalizes it, underplaying...”
– Alice Julier, “The Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All”
Grilled Vegetable Salad
“Flavour is, among other things, a repository of feeling and memory: just as a smell is said to be the most redolent sense, so the flavour of a certain dish can transport us back instantaneously to the time and place we first experienced it, or experienced it most memorably” - Niki Segnit, The Flavour Thesaurus
Grilled Vegetable Salad is one of those dishes that...
“In Europe, I saw the difference: that farmers grew for chefs, and the every day...”
– Larry Forgione’s observations about the American food system in the 80’s
Scones
I have returned to England permanently. Well, perhaps not permanently, but at least for a while… a long while… and I have decided to come to terms with it. I decided there was no better way to lure my American friends across the pond for a visit than the promise of homemade scones, so I set out to learn. I am sure I have confessed on this blog before that I am not much of a...
Back to Life
The sun came out in London this week. Full blown, squint-inducing, shorts-wearing, ice-cream licking, sit-outside-without-a-cardigan SUN granting us 70° days and long bright evenings. Now, 70° might not sound too exciting for you sun-worshiping Californians, but let me tell you, we (meaning me and the rest of the English population) could not have been more thrilled. There were picnics. There was...