This food-based holiday, with all its various and unique family traditions, has evolved over the past 400 years. And many, but not all, know that it is based on the… [Continue Reading]
Author: Patty
Making Your Own Processed Food
We all have heard, and most of us clearly understand, that highly processed food are bad for us medically, and in terms of our overall health. Yet they are tasty,… [Continue Reading]
Hungarian Cuisine is Known Through Its Paprika
Goulash is a well known dish, replicated in many parts of the world, often with a similar name but different ingredients. In my experience, each variation is authentic to the… [Continue Reading]
How to Grind Your Own, Like I Do
To have a longer shelf-life, I tend to buy my spices in seed form and not pre-ground. Then, when I grind the spice, I have a better sense of its… [Continue Reading]
A Weird Connection of Food and Spies
Mashed wrote an article titled: A Couple Was Just Arrested For Selling Government Secrets Using These Sticky Foods. I was curious, so I did some research on the connection between… [Continue Reading]
To bastardize Cole Porter, “Eggs for Sale”
Eggs have become so expensive these days, I thought I would post something that tried to explain what the various options mean when we make our way to buy a… [Continue Reading]
Importance of Buying at Farmers Markets Now
National Farmers Market Week is August 4-10! How do I plan to celebrate? By visiting the market of course. But I will be doing so not just for less expensive food, but… [Continue Reading]
An Astonished Honey Connoisseur
I have continued my research on honey. I have now spoken with bee keepers, have had to call for help for ground wasp removal (often predators of honey bees), and… [Continue Reading]
DFA Had Good Intent + Now Bad Outcomes?
The NewYorker (2021) started off an article with: In 1980, the country had more than three hundred thousand dairy farms. Today there are only about thirty thousand. And with that… [Continue Reading]
Why do you Love Cooking?
This was the question my spouse came up with when I asked, “do you have any burning question, about food, that I can address in my blog?” What made this… [Continue Reading]
Pandemic + Comfort Food
We are entering Spring, having just shared the top ”comfort food” holidays. It brought to my mind what “comfort food” really means to me, and then I had a question…. [Continue Reading]
Our Horrendous Wobbly Global Food Supply
This is a post to update the state of our global supply food chain, because the recent Baltimore bridge disaster might disrupt USA’s soybean and tofu supply. Last year, Canada… [Continue Reading]
Refrigeration is Great, but Heats Our Planet
I started this post thinking about Refrigerators and wanted to review them the way I did Dishwashers. So I started by looking into our attempts at food preservation, from cellars… [Continue Reading]
