Food: Farming is Only the Beginning
If there’s one point I find myself making over and over and over again about food, it’s that farming is only the beginning. So do take a look at this great…
Read moreDid Elizabeth David Test Recipes? Eat Your Words, Rachel
Some time ago, writing about Elizabeth David and Julia Child, I cheerfully said of the former “I would bet a good bit that she had never cooked most of those…
Read morePure and Simple? Cheese and Ghee
Almost exactly a hundred years, in 1917, in Calcutta in India a controversy flared up about ghee (clarified butter). There ghee is no ordinary foodstuff. It is a wondrous golden…
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