Switzerland: Historical Cheese Events around the Country

Published by Thursday, September 20, 2012 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

 

Cheese

Keep up with all the real (vs. industrial) cheese events all over Switzerland. Click here for listings and updates.

 

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 20, 2012

Published by Thursday, September 20, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.–X. Marcel Boulestin, Simple French Cooking for English Homes 1923

Xavier Marcel Boulestin was a French chef, restaurateur and the author of cookbooks that popularized French cuisine to the English-speaking world. The Restaurant Boulestin, known as the most expensive in London, opened in 1927. Its fame, and the long series of books and articles that Boulestin wrote, made him a celebrity. Among those influenced by Boulestin was the English cooking expert Elizabeth David, who praised Boulestin in her writings, and adopted many of his ideas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Food Art: Spanish beach bar food: prawns and monkfish kebabs, food photography by Steve Homer

Published by Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Permalink 0

Our ongoing series of tapas photos from our latest food artist discovery: food photographer Steve Homer of Sabor de Almería in the southeast of Spain.

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Food Art: Bergen Fish Market, food photography by Meeta Khurana Wolff

Published by Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Permalink 0

See more food photo compositions at Meeta K. Wolff.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 19, 2012

Published by Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.–Curnonsky

Maurice Edmond Sailland, better known by his pen-name Curnonsky, and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century. He wrote or ghost-wrote over 65 books and enormous numbers of newspaper columns, included his most famous book, La France Gastronomique: Guide Des Merveilles Culinaires Et Des Bonnes Auberges Fran Aises (Gastronomic France: Guide to Culinary Marvels and Good French Inns).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Simple Sustenance: Spud Love — Spiced Potatoes and Dill

Published by Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Permalink 0

by Renu Chhabra

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.–Robert Morley

It is hard to find someone who does not like potato.

From french fries, latkes, croquettes, gratins, fritters, hash browns, salads, to soups and stews — the list is endless. Most of us have our favorite potato dish or two.

This starchy tuber may seem like a very humble commodity, but is definitely celebrated in kitchens around the globe. Americans, Italians, Indians, French, or Irish — they all have their potato specialties making it difficult to ignore its place in the gastronomic arena.

My recent visit to India confirmed its importance even more.

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 18, 2012

Published by Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Permalink 0

by Simón de Swaan

There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.–Bette Davis (in the film Old Acquaintance)

Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. Click here to see a trailer from her movie Old Acquaintance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just a spoonful of honey makes the medicine go down

Published by Monday, September 17, 2012 Permalink 0

 by Magda Wawrzonkowska

Honey is available all year long, but it’s at its tastiest in summer and early autumn when it has just been harvested. So we’re right in the middle of the honey season. This is the best time to discover its amazing properties. Give your body a wonderful gift — stop buying off-the-shelf honey products that contain only a small percentage of honey and discover the plethora of uses for this truly marvelous golden liquid!

Honey in honeycombs

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Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 17, 2012

Published by Monday, September 17, 2012 Permalink 0

 

by Simón de Swaan

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.–Luis Buñuel

The New York Times was a Spanish-born Mexican filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the United States. When he died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him “an iconoclast, moralist and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Food Art: Baking Bonanza, a food photography exhibit by Rashmi Primlani

Published by Saturday, September 15, 2012 Permalink 0

 

 

 

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