Tag Archives: food culture Heading out Lately, I feel as if I am shopping in the end times. I make my weekly shopping list and shop just once. Then I prepare. I make sure I have my list, mask, shopping bag, and wallet. I almost always forget my glasses and have to go back for them. My forays are […]  A is for all kinds of things, culinary and otherwise, but today A is for Apple Kuchen. About a hundred years ago (OK, sometime in the last century) my mom accumulated, volume by volume, The Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery. I don’t know what happened to her set, but I just bought my own set. […]  Less than one week to go, and you may have already started your Thanksgiving countdown. Any minute now Christmas decorations will go up, holiday music will ring through every available sound system, and we’ll all switch into some level of panic and anxiety as the trifecta of holidays approaches. And even if you’re Jewish, […]  Before you buy another spiral sliced holiday ham, ask yourself when was the last time you had a good one, if ever. The spiral sliced ham is ubiquitous. It is a terrible fraud that has been perpetrated on us by advertising and the pork industry. If ham is part of your holiday meal you owe it […]  Most everyone will serve mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving this year, but not all. All of us—Americans have an idea of what belongs on the table, but that idea is as varied as we are. America is a country made up of (mostly) immigrants, and even at Thanksgiving, diversity is what’s on the menu. I love Kevin Hart, […] |
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