by Brian | Feb 3, 2017 | Recipes, Super Bowl
If I ever want to sleep on the couch, all I have to do is eat some raw onion. I like raw onion. Suzen does not. The compromise is we cook them, and we make them sweet with utilitarian value. On Sunday, you have the Super Bowl and that’s a day for snacking. It’s an...
by Brian | Feb 2, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Paula Peck wrote only cookbooks but they established her fame most solidly. She studied under James Beard and lived in New York City in the 1960s, a period when there were those new “foreign” restaurants serving French and Italian food. Paula was self-taught...
by Brian | Feb 2, 2017 | Recipes, Super Bowl
It is less than a week to the Super Bowl and you have two decisions to make: who to root for and what to eat. I’m repeating this post because it is iconic: we neeed wings, dips, drinks, and dessert. I must admit one little point: the wings picture above...
by Brian | Feb 1, 2017 | Recipes, Super Bowl
Yesterday I did a cookbook review of Fingerfood by Elsa Petersen-Schepelern. I mentioned three recipes that seem ideally posed for a Super Bowl Feast. This is one of them: different, bright and bursting with flavor. How can a crabcake be different? Well, this...
