How To Be A Good Dinner Guest (And Get Invited Back)

So I was cruising around the net, and reading blogs the other day and on Slashfood, I found a link to this Seattle Times article: Non appetit: Dietary restrictions can complicate social dining. Basically, it is about the fact that because of greater prevalance in food allergies and awareness of diseases such as celiac in […]

Kids’ Food In The News

Zak decided, what with our imminent status as the parents of a newborn, that he should read up on what is going on in the world of parenting. So, he subscribed to an email newsletter about parenting from The Washington Post, and thus found out that one of the things that parents are concerned about […]

Heirloom Tomatoes Are Here!

Heirloom tomatoes are a hot topic in the food world these days, with writers generally trumpeting their virtues, though some folks, such as Derek from An Obsession With Food, have conducted taste tests of some varieties of heirloom tomato and have been both underwhelmed and blown away. What makes a tomato an heirloom? Well, they […]

Around the Food Blogs: The Ethics of Recipe Writing, Publishing and Blogging

Meg of Megnut posted an article that appeared earlier this year in the Washington Post about recipes and copyright, and Kate of the Accidental Hedonist wrote a bit about it on her blog this week. When the article came out, I remember writing about it on The Paper Palate, back when I was editing that […]

A Bean, By Any Other Name, Wouldst Taste As Sweet?

Beans are in my blood. I grew up eating them, child of Appalachia that I am. A cheap source of protein, dried beans were not only an easy meal, but they were a way of life, especially in the wintertime. When the weather was cold and blustery, the remedy was to put on a pot […]

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