How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
If you've been reading for a while, you'll remember a few TV appearances I mentioned starting last year. I've finally got all of them online. Here's the first from January 21st, 2009, where I made the Frozen Chocolate Truffle Pie. … [Read more...]
Fans of Michael Pollan are familiar with the phrase "corn people": Descendants of the Maya living in Mexico still sometimes refer to themselves as "the corn people." The phrase is not intended as metaphor. Rather, it's meant to acknowledge their abiding dependence on this miraculous grass, the staple of their diet for almost 9,000 years. For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in corn, not to think of himself as a corn person … [Read more...]
Pizzelles are a classic Italian treat, so they're super easy to find at most grocery stores, and certainly at any Italian market. But unless you've got a great market that does a ton of volume (Yay for Alesci's) you don't know how long that package has been sitting on the shelf. I held off on making my own pizzelles for a long time, afraid they'd take too much practice to get them right. It turns out, but the third or fourth pair I was on a roll. Have you ever had a pizzelle hot from the … [Read more...]
I'm a big fan of making things like salad dressing, mayonnaise, spaghetti sauce. (I did the Italian dressing, bacon bits and croûtons in that salad up there.) Things that people usually buy at the grocery store, but there's no reason you can't make your own. … [Read more...]
One day a stranger came to my house. She said her name was Ana, and said that she was very hungry. She asked if I had any food that she could have. I said that I didn't have anything prepared, and asked if she had any ideas. She said, "I think you should make Stone Soup." "Stone Soup?" I asked. "I've never heard of Stone Soup. Can you tell me how to make it?" "Sure," Ana said. "All we need is this stone ... " "... and maybe a few other things ... just to make it extra special." … [Read more...]
