For lunch, we couldn't go out for sushi since we still had a lot of turkey and other leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner. So I made Th...

The whitish green eggs are from a hen named Jello and the brown eggs are from a hen named Marguerite. Jello and Marguerite and another he...

Turkey, cranberry sauce, plum chutney, and several vegetables Ready to eat... Apple pie, chocolate pie, cranberry bread...

By the time we arrived here in West Lafayette, the turkey was in the oven and almost everything ready to cook for Thanksgiving dinner, which...

From the incomparable mathemusician Vi Hart, here is another video. She now has 4 Thanksgiving videos, and a Halloween video with a sierpins...

I had my last Twinkie a couple of years ago for Twinkie Day -- April of 2010. The funny thing, I wrote then, is that I remember thinking the...

In the Los Angeles Times Today : " Alexander Calder's fanciful kitchen utensils " -- he'd make them for his wife when s...

“The most horrible thing that had been done was not that a whole people had been exterminated, but that a whole people, God’s chil...

I don’t understand China, but I decided to read The Garlic Ballads by this year’s Nobelist in Literature, Mo Yan. I don’t un...

School lunches are much in the news this fall, as recently-enacted nutritional standards are mandating changes. The public schools in St. ...

Not all food in art is perfect, as many Renaissance artists illustrated. In a current New York times article, photographer Laura Letinsk...

Here: a wonderful illustrated round-up of McDonald's adaptations in other lands. I would love to try some of them, like the Moroccan ...

Very early hominids at some point learned to eat cooked food. This allowed evolution of "smaller guts, bigger brains, bigger bodies, ...

"Let's start the foodie backlash" by Steven Poole, a very long and ranting article  in The Guardian , condemns many things abo...

In the 18th century, ice cream was a novelty. Not new -- even the Romans had frozen desserts, and the transition to ice cream was gradual....

Wednesday night I attended the regular meeting of the Culinary Book Club that I belong to. We read  Birdseye  by Mark Kurlansky, a biogra...

On one of the delightful reruns of Julia Child shows, she and Jacques Pepin make a turkey dinner with all the traditional side dishes. As...

At today's Old Car Festival in Greenfield Village, I learned about a cookbox that was made, back in the day, to fit over the exhaust man...