Au Pied de Cochon, Montreal and Poutine avec McDonalds’ Fries

It’s that time again… Five Star Foodie Makeover Group is meeting again and this time the subject is JUNK FOOD!!! Hard to believe but I strug...

Henri Charpentier, J. Edgar Hoover and Purée Mongole (fresh pea soup with tomato)

   Henri Charpentier at Café de Paris in Chicago, early 1940’s When I wrote about Downton Abbey and its Crêpes Suzettes a few months ago, I...

Mad Science vs Our Daily Bread…Ancient Einkorn to the Rescue

In a film class many years ago, a professor told us that Godzilla was no mere monster movie. He said that the story (told ingeniously and s...

Variations on a Theme: Goose Burgers with a Molten Foie Gras Center

$400,000 18 th Century Chinese Export Goose Tureen  In music, a variation is “a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered f...

Visiting with the Silk Road Gourmet, Ancient Sour Meatballs

Sour Meatbballs One of the things I absolutely love about blogging is all the remarkable people that I have met.  Mostly virtually but some ...