Food date: 2017.043 It’s a beautiful snowy day in the Northeast. Annoyingly, the flu season caught up with me this month, which took time away from writing and researching. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are some “Fun Food Facts” to tie us over. (For those just joining us, I like to add fun facts… Read More Valentine’s Day
Food date: 2017.017 The mastermind behind chocolate chip cookies? Drum roll please…Mrs. Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. In 1930’s, Mrs. Wakefield decided to cut up her bar of chocolate and add the pieces to her drop cookie recipe—and behold, an American classic was born. She displayed some savvy business sense when she… Read More The “Inn” Cookie —aka the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Food date: 2016.339 Noggin. Noggin. Noggin. I had a lot of fun saying that word while researching the history of eggnog. As it turns out, there is debate among the experts on the origin of eggnog. One thing is for certain, there are a lot of fun words associated with it, such as caudle, posset,… Read More Eggnog and how it relates to pirates
Food date: 2016.332 Most Americans love the day after Thanksgiving for the leftovers (and the Black Friday sales). How leftovers are consumed varies as much as what people serve with their turkey or tofurkey. Many cooks purposely make more food to ensure there are leftovers for their guests and their exhausted selves. So I wondered,… Read More Leftovers
Food date: 2016.311 One of my favorite breakfast foods is muffins. The food history world references two basic kinds of muffins — English and American. English muffins are made with yeast, while American muffins are in the quick bread category. This week I am focusing on American muffins, or what we Americans like to call…muffins.… Read More The Quick Muffin
Food date: 2016.305 Not surprisingly, I can’t think of Halloween without conjuring crazy costumes, trick or treaters, and CANDY! Some may know that Halloween is associated with All Hallow’s Eve, the evening before the Catholic celebration of All Saint’s Day. But how did candy become popular for this eve of a ghosts and goblins? Apples… Read More Happy Halloween
Food date: 2016.297 I’ll admit; I have an obsession with cookbooks, especially ones with history and personal stories included. One of my more recent purchases is “My Kitchen Year” by Ruth Reichl, where she discusses the first cookbook with actual measurements (versus instructions like a dash of salt). That cookbook was “The Boston Cooking School… Read More A Betty Crocker Girl Am I
