Cooking. What is It?
We are bombarded with information about how to cook and with exhortations to cook. But what is cooking? It’s a question that I have considered from time to time over…
Read moreMending Woks. Uses of Woks in the Nineteenth Century
Donald Wagner, the expert on Chinese metallurgy, sent me a page he has put together on the historical and contemporary accounts and photos of the Chinese tinkers who mended woks.…
Read moreBeyond Baked Beans
Back to the question of cooks in the kitchen. A web friend of mine in the UK, Fiona Beckett, has been producing a series of books and now this web…
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