February 3, 2011
We’ve started a food photography album! Every time we fall in love with a food photo, we add it to our gallery.
- Arbutus cream, by Monica Pinto
Click here to take a peak at this week’s additions.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 3, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds to Radio City? The Empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. And, again I cry, how rarely it happens! But when it does happen — then what a moment, what a morning, what a delight?–J.B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions (1929), as well as numerous dramas, such as An Inspector Calls. His output included literary and social criticism.
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Switzerland: leshop.ch: Migros Full-Service Home Delivery, Perfect for Bad Weather or Illness
by Jonell GallowayMigros’s home delivery service is perfect during this period of icy, snowy streets
Since I live in the old town in Geneva, I walk everywhere. A few years ago, I had shoulder and wrist injuries from carrying too many heavy shopping bags, and ever since, I’ve had to do my heavy grocery and household shopping with a trolley. A couple of years ago, after regularly hearing the leshop.ch ads on WRS, I decided to try and avoid pulling my heavy trolley, filled with milk, detergents, and other heavy products, up the hill from the Coop 2000 and the Boulevard Helvétique market to the Russian Church, so I tried leshop.ch. With the ice and snow on the streets, home delivery can definitely be a godsend.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 2, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.–W. H. Auden
Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden, who published under the name W. H. Auden, was born in England, and later became an American citizen. He is regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature.
Click here to read his poems.
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Food Art: Raspberry, Lemon & Amaretti Cake, food photography by Meeta Khurana Wolff
See more food photo compositions at Meeta K. Wolff or in our Food Art category. She also runs the popular blog What’s For Lunch Honey?
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French Food Facts: What is a Salpicon?
In classic French cuisine, the term “salpicon” refers to a mixture of one or more ingredients, diced, and then bound with a sauce.
The salpicon is then used to fill pastry shells, fill pastry dough, make canapés — the list is endless.
They can also be used to make cromesquis or to stuff eggs or meat.
Typical examples are diced cucumbers, green asparagus seafood bound with mayonnaise, or leftover meats bound with white or brown sauce.
Today, the term is also used in Mexican cuisine.
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Simple Sustenance: Lemon Thyme-Flavored Spaghetti Squash with Green Olives
by Renu Chhabra
“I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.” Madame Benoît
Flavor Combination Discoveries
Around this time of the year, our love for squash grows. I’m part of that “our.” I love their oddball shapes, different textures, and sweet flesh. I always find myself admiring them in grocery stores, as if they were art objects, each one unique in its color and shape. And since coming to the States, I have discovered more “oddballs” than ever to fall in love with. What can I say? They intrigue me. In fact, I’ve been writing about them consistently on my new blog, Simple Sustenance for Us, with great enthusiasm.
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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 1, 2012
by Simón de Swaan
Sir, respect your dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.–William Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
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Switzerland: Coop’s Pro Montagna Label: 5 Years of Protecting Traditional Swiss Food Products
Switzerland: Coop’s Pro Montagna Label: 5 Years of Protecting Traditional Swiss Food Products
by Jonell Galloway
In 2005, Andy Imfeld, a montagnard and organic food producer, started discussing the possibility of selling Swiss mountain products directly in Coop supermarkets. After long negotiations as to how it should work, it was decided that for each mountain product sold, a certain amount of the payment would go directly to the families of farmers or projects in mountain regions.
Coop labeled the products Pro Montagna, and the project has been a great success, with some 200 products to date, from yogurt to bread, and including meat products and wooden toys.
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