On Food & Culture
Because it’s difficult to put into words, I’ve waited two days to write about my experience seeing a film (not digital video) by Alexandra Cuesta. “Piensa en MÔ runs for 15 minutes and 6 seconds, and it is shot mainly from inside buses but also […]
Why We Are Truly a Nation by William Matthews Because we rage inside the old boundaries, like a young girl leaving the Church, scared of her parents. Because we all dream of saving the shaggy, dung-caked buffalo, shielding the herd with our bodies. Because grief […]
I’m taken aback by how clearly Robert Louis Stevenson describes the art process, be it a book, film, video, casserole, sculpture or other: To Any Reader As from the house your mother sees You playing round the garden trees So you may see, if you […]
The Edible Metaphor is the title of a lecture given by Peter Kubelka at the Berlin Talent Campus. An avant-garde filmmaker, Peter Kubelka explores the relationship between food and film. According to Kubelka, “…everybody who makes films should also cook. Cooking is performing art, and […]
this was last night’s dinner. Roasted poblano peppers and onions gave a robust twang to the sauteed cube steak that I finished with a sauce made from deglazing and buerre monté. I threw in the green beans to soften the overall taste.
Here’s the link to the art exhibit in which food, candy in particular, is not just served at the exhibit but is actually the art. “The Candy Shop” features three visual artists and myself as chef exploring issues surrounding the manufacture, commercialization, advertising and transporting […]
Notes on cooking my candy for an upcoming art show, “The Candy Shop” Eating candy is an artful experience, both visual and flavorful. When biting into Latin American candy the moment is imbued with a long history of cultural encounter between Latin American and European […]
Today’s lecture notes dealing with Tex-Mex cuisine has this astounding sentence in the description of our cusine: “Basically, Tex-Mex food consists of bastardized Mexican foods. Burritos, tacos, enchiladas, and quesadillas are a few.” I believe we’ll be discussing this attitude tomorrow morning and it will […]
Today we studied “Cuisines of the Americas,” cuisines that recent European immigrants (1600’s) developed in New England. Forced to use local ingredients, they adapted their knowledge of European cooking and, with the help of the locals, developed intersting stuff. We cooked clam chowder and Yankee […]
Today I’m starting to blog again. It’s been a long, long, long, sad absence, indeed, but this morning’s cooking class conversation about vegetarian cooking made me smile. At 7 AM we discussed complementary proteins, those that served together provide a higher quality protein or a […]