Will Write For Food

I have returned from my partially enforced, partially voluntary writing hiatus, and thought it might be nice to warn my readers that I have a few ideas bubbling in the caudron of my mind for taking this blog in a few different directions from this entry forth. I started this blog in large measure just […]

The Chinese Cookbook Project IV: From the Best Chinese Restaurant in the World

One of the few cookbooks featuring the cuisine of Hunan province, Henry Chung’s Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook is sadly out of print. In 1974, Tony Hiss, a staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine, dubbed Henry’s Hunan Restaurant on Kearny Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown, “the best Chinese restaurant in the world.” Thirty-two years later, […]

Book Review: The Story of Corn

The Story of Corn Betty Fussell North Point Press: New York, New York 1992 Winner of the IACP Jane Grigson Award 1993 Out of Print This book isn’t a cookbook, but it is a book that cooks might enjoy. It is a book that unlocks the cultural history of that most American of crops: corn. […]

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