On Food & Culture
Direct, uncomplicated, profuse flavor. I think oftentimes we miss so much by complicating our everyday, wasting time with artifice. Just look at the beauty of what’s around, get real and go with it!We roast Anaheim chiles then eat them with hot yellow corn tortilla and …
Of course, it’s “Sole Meunière” that’s the quintessential French luscious dish but chicken is great. Here it’s served with spinach and roasted potatoes. I think the dish is rustic country and also elegant. Recipe: serves two Ingredients Chicken 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts ¼ …
Food is direct cultural memory; it nourishes as it keeps us alive and connects us to the past — our own, our families,’ our communities.’ Our media is also direct cultural memory. It has the fierce ability to nourish our consciousness just as powerfully and …
Notes on Cookingthree-minute interviews with chefs, filmmakers and food activists This week Chef Iliana De La Vega, acclaimed authority on Mexican Cuisine, explains the Spanish and Arab influences on Mexican Cuisine. Noting her philosophy of food, she advocates not covering up flavors with heavy lard …
For Fall socials, this elegant and earthy local canapéwill please friends. The trout is aromatic and complex. The flavored butter gives a perfect velvety mouth feel companion to the oils and flavor of the fish. After brining and drying the trout, place the fish in …
Smoked trout is a favorite of mine for dinner parties because it brings the outside in. It’s also deeply entrenched in our Texas Mexican culinary tradition of outdoor techniques of salting, drying and smoking. Many techniques (pickling, brining, drying, freezing and smoking), take us back …
It’s a good thing that I’m feeling jumbled, riled, mixed up and chaotic. The protests against the corporate reality in which we live (corporations are persons now) are chaotic, which means powerful, energizing and substantive. Injustice is always served with food. So is justice. The …
I cry for us.people powerless in society, the despised, the de-humanizedwhat a contradiction. The despiser. I cry for us. And sob,sob, that it is in our nature to inflict pain, bully, fellow human beings. LISTEN TO THE AUDIO DOCUMENTARY: “REMEMBERING STONEWALL” BY DAVID ISAY Recently …
Chef and Author Melissa Guerro identifies the Mariame Indians of Texas, the Comanches and others in the roots of today’s TexMex cuisine. Melded with the Spanish influence, this delicious cuisine is growing in importance. Like all cultural cuisines, “It can fix the world!” “TEXMEX CUISINE …
notes on cooking… a series of video shorts “critical thinking about food and its meanings” 3 minutes with a chef, filmmaker or food activist. The series covers trends in food pathways, food conglomerates, kitchens, farms, labor and entertainment. Issues about social justice and the cultivation …