Want to Know Where Ingredients in a Recipe Originated? Try This.

For the past few weeks I’ve been corresponding with Wilfried Hou Je Bek who has an interesting off-beat blog called Cryptoforestry. He’s been developing some nifty tools that might be…

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Culinary History Award, International Association of Culinary Professionals

Almost twenty years ago, the phone rang late at night.  “You’ve won,” said my lovely friend Cara De Silva.  “You’ve won the Jane Grigson Prize.”  That my Food of Paradise:…

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The Joy of SPAM

And since I’ve been discussing canned foods, let me say something about SPAM. In the late 1980s I found myself in the Hawaiian Islands. SPAM was everywhere.  Here’s a rundown…

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