The Chefs Dinner is a couple of weeks past now, fabulous as always. We’ve been buzzing with guests and good food here and I am fighting a deadline on our textbook revisions (should be done in a month, except for the copyediting, etc.) but I do intend [...]
The Slow Food Bloomington Chefs Dinner is coming up this Sunday at 5:30 at the Bloomington Convention Center. Here’s the menu (subject to final tweaks and improvements.) The wine pairings are still in the works. Tickets are available for $100 per person at Bloomingfoods East and West, or email [...]
Well this is kind of embarrassing, but here I am. Politics still driving me crazy, but one must eat, after all.
Food. Of course I have been eating all through this ordeal (though there have been a few moments when I actually lost my appetite.) Some highlights really stand out.
A visit from [...]
Sorry for my blogging silence of late – I’ve been broadsided by my day job.
Besides writing about food, what I do is teach political science and write about American politics. With primaries and caucuses every other day (or what feels like every other day), this is our silly season. [...]
So it’s not a gorgeous picture, it tasted gorgeous and that’s what counts.
Here’s the thing. Even during my meat eating years I wasn’t all that big a fan of chicken. It just tasted like, well, chicken. A little dry, boring, nothing to get worked up about unless you coated it [...]
I haven’t been such a hot blogger this year – what with one thing and another there were some long dry spots between posts on my end. I haven’t been able to read blogs as regularly as I’d like, either.
Makes me feel especially guilty when I consider what [...]
Ah, Life in the slow lane, at last. School’s out, we are in Florida, took a long walk on the beach this afternoon with the dogs (who have come down here with us for the first time), and all’s right with my world.
I meant to make a long detailed post [...]
We meant to go to Florida for Thanksgiving this year but stuff came up. Had to go to Savannah on business last weekend and then some paperwork needed to be dealt with here and then… I don’t know, four days in a car with two dogs to spend [...]
A couple of weeks ago several student members of Slow Food Bloomington got together to work on chartering an IU chapter of Slow Food on Campus. As the faculty sponsor, I got to tag along, which was a good thing because they met over a terrific potluck supper [...]
Ever since I read here about the opening of Goose the Market in Indianapolis I have been itching to get there and last night we finally managed it. Easy to find on the corner of 25th and Delaware, the Goose is a gem of a place, stocked by [...]
Hey, remember me? Sorry for the blogsilence but I don’t multi-task well under the best of circumstances, and lately blogging added just one chore too many for my beleaguered brain. Besides, I’ve barely cooked a thing for days and I haven’t read a food blog in months.
The “why” is Home [...]
This semester opened with a bang and I am already behind. Between classes (first exam already tomorrow!), Bloom (met deadlines by the skin of my teeth), Home Grown Indiana (missed deadline, had to beg extension), and planning for KTR revisions (those deadlines stretch well into 2008) I [...]
It is the tail end of watermelon season here in Indiana and I am stockpiling memories of crisp sweetness to get me through til next July. I was never too much of a watermelon eater as a kid because, frankly, it seemed like way too much sticky mess for [...]
Maybe I should rename this blog My Crate or Yours -- lately it seems to be as much about dogs as food, and God knows I'm nuts about them both.
Last Thursday night I thought I’d have another sad dog post to write. It was late in the evening [...]
I’ve found the perfect food. It is elemental and primal –- so soulful, so creamy, so sweet and pure, that the first time I tasted it I cried. I know it’s only a pot of curdled milk when all is said and done -- but the baked ricotta [...]
Thanks so much to everyone who wrote to me about Gina, or commented on the last post. It’s been a hard week, but the memories are warm and sweet.
Last night we visited the Blue River Café, on the Blue River, in Milltown, Indiana. Until yesterday I wasn’t really aware [...]
Sorry I don't have much to say about food right now, but I am not feeling very hungry. This
afternoon we are saying goodbye to our darling Gina girl. Regina Marie Puppy, if you want her full name,
but always Gina to us. She is 14 and
very [...]
Sorry you haven’t heard much from me lately. I am in the final stretch of getting research and writing done for Home Grown Indiana, the book Scott Hutcheson and I have coming out next year with IU Press. With all the racketing around and general panic, blogging has [...]
I’m not much of a movie-goer. I think I have some sort of brain defect that prevents me from sitting still for long periods of time while recorded images unfold before me. At the tender age nine I got up in the middle of My Fair Lady and [...]
Fregola Sarda
No, it’s not a curse from the new Harry Potter book (doesn’t it sound like one, though? “Harry pointed his wand at the robed figure that launched itself from the shadows and hollered ‘Fregola Sarda,’ just as the green light hit him and the world shattered into small pieces of [...]
Ooooh, I am such a bad blogger. Many, many fun food things have been happening in my life and I have not had time to post about them. No, not so – I have had time but not enough to craft the perfect story, so I have posted [...]
Several
snippets of good stuff today.
We got home from Florida yesterday afternoon with a big cooler full of fat gulf shrimp for a dinner party I am planning next month. Four pounds of gorgeous head-on shrimp, frozen on the boat and as fresh as can be! To keep them frozen, we’d packed the [...]
This is not the blog post I thought I would be writing this morning.
Last night we went on another smoking binge. We smoked two pounds of fat beautiful shrimp, which I had marinated in olive oil, lemon juice and chopped garlic, and a block of Monterey Jack [...]
We’ve been cooking ourselves silly this last week in Apalach. Tomorrow we need to hit the road home, and are planning on doing some shrimp smoking today, so last night we took ourselves out on the town.
With a permanent population of way under 3000, Apalachicola has more than its [...]
