2004 Food Blog Awards
Kate at The Accidental Hedonist has come up with a groovy new idea–the Food Blog Awards, inspired by the lack of attention to food blogs in the Bloggies (and who knew there even was such a thing as a “Bloggie”?) There are 14 categories, including everything from Best Post to Best Group Blog. Nominations are ...Keep Reading
Mushroom Barley Soup
This is another recipe I grew up with, and when the weather turns cool it’s one of my favorite—and easiest—things to make. It’s from an English kosher cookbook, called The Gourmet’s Guide to Jewish Cooking by Bessie Carr & Phyllis Oberman. It’s one of my mom’s most-used cookbooks, and she gave me a copy when ...Keep Reading
Friday Afternoons
What’s that you say—today is Tuesday, not Friday? Well I know that, silly. This is another one of those memory pieces, in which I wax rhapsodic about a food I grew up on and then attempt to recreate it. Today’s episode: Challah. As I’ve mentioned before, my mom suffered from a disabling depression through much ...Keep Reading
A Huge Thank-You to Charlie Suisman at Manhattan User’s Guide
Of the handful of e-newsletters to which I subscribe, there are two whose content I find invaluable enough to forward to others nearly every week. One is Chowhound’s Chownews, to which I’ve already devoted several hundred words in these pages. The other is Charlie Suisman’s Manhattan User’s Guide. Whether he’s highlighting the best place to ...Keep Reading
Foods Traditional, Commercial, and Unusual
In the course of one very long day (yesterday), I helped S’s family celebrate his great-grandmother’s 102nd birthday, checked out the new Cereality shop in Philadelphia, and visited an old friend and her family. The range of experience—of food experience—was astounding. Part One: Little Gram’s 102nd The women on S’s mother’s side are renowned for ...Keep Reading
