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Breakfast @ Denny’s: when you want a lot of food for your money
Least my last post have you thinking that nothing but gourmet food will do. I’m no breakfast snob (though I do prefer mom-and-pop or indie places where breakfast is well done). That said, one of my favorite breakfast places throughout my adult life has been iHop. It was there that I discovered pancakes made with […]
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Restaurants in Chicago’s Southland: Blueberry Hill, Homewood
I met a work friend for a “retirement celebration” for breakfast Sunday morning. She ordered crepes with blueberries and topped with yogurt, granola, and fruit. This was only the second time in her life she’d had crepes. The first time was the day before, Saturday. She tells me they were good. The dish certainly looked […]
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a delicious fruit-based galette with JavaMania’s delectable bourbon coffee
I have had a nice happy vibe going on after my morning cup of Kenyan coffee with bourbon from JavaMania. It’s a dreary day, and that’s saying a lot. This afternoon, I looked at my daily email from the discounted (inexpensive AF) book site, Bookbub, featuring this Williams-Sonoma cookbook: And a lightbulb went off. A […]
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JavaMania’s Delectable Boozy Coffee
My mother was a coffee addict so the thick aroma of coffee was always percolating throughout the house. She drank her coffee black. No cream. A little sugar, on occasion. Hot. Cold. Lukewarm. The temperature made little difference to her. Needless to say, she was not a connoisseur. Despite growing up around coffee (or maybe […]
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Check out Cheryl Day’s new book on Southern Baking (w recipes and black culinary history)
Southern baking–like most of the region’s historic foodways–is more than just an amalgam of timeless treats: Many of the South’s most cherished baking traditions are vestiges of the lives and livelihoods of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Black women, in particular, originated many of the innovative recipes that the white women they cooked for would publish […]
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Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family
Plenty is about food people. Not just about any food people but my food people. And not just my food people but my food women. Plenty author, Hannah Howard on finding her food people (mostly women), article @ Salon I sneak in reading from Hannah Howard’s Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family (this is […]
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What Makes It Good Chocolate, Anyway? Or, premium chocolate is in eyes of the beholder.
After my “science of chocolate” and more post, I got to pondering on what is good chocolate, anyway? Growing up my idea of premium chocolate was Marshall Fields Frango Mints and Fannie May’s Vanilla and Rum Creams, Pixies, Mint Meltaways, and Trinidads. When I could, I stayed away from Whitman’s and Russell Stover’s chocolates which […]
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Chocolate Grows on Trees, The Science of Good Chocolate, and other notes for chocoholics and food nerds
A good piece of chocolate is like a good piece of music. It contains something memorable that stays on your mind for the entire day…Most of us don’t recognize this nuance because we grew up on confections characterized by sweetness and one dominant chocolatey note—consistency we expect when reaching for a Hershey’s or a handful […]
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What Is A Gourmet?
A gourmet doesn’t see food as a means to an end. To a gourmet, food is art. Such a food enthusiast is into edible luxury. Gourmets enjoy the experience of eating, making, or displaying food. Some even explore the history and the anthropology of the foods they eat. A gourmet takes time and care in […]
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Cornmeal Crust Pizza, Canadian Down Pillows, The Everything Glass & Coveting the Good Stuff @ Move Co.
About two years or so ago, I joined Move, an online grocery store startup in San Francisco CA. What got my attention was the founder’s promise of high quality staple foods, including meat proteins and produce, at affordable prices. Food being my category of interest (a phrase that I latched onto after reading the futurist […]
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