What do you think of Brillat-Savarin? Honestly now

This is a serious question. Brillat-Savarin, just to remind you, published in 1825 a work on gastronomy called Physiologie du Goût (in English The Physiology of Taste)  self-described as “a…

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More on Bread from William Rubel

This long response from William to all the comments generated by his post on bread in the French Alps simply has to go up as a full post. “So many…

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The Island Plate

It’s cookbook award time. And the number of stunning cookbooks that are out there is overwhelming: beautifully written, well-tested recipes, and glorious photography. Yet there are so many lovely books…

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