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That’s So Corny, Irene!

Published by Alice + Friday, August 26, 2011 Permalink 0

by Alice DeLuca

A Brief History of Creamed Corn and What to Pack in Your Hurricane Survival Kit

This season, our thoughts turn to hurricanes and the darker part of the year. My own thoughts wander quite a bit, as a matter of course, and I find myself thinking about creamed corn, and specifically canned creamed corn, a staple of the American baby boomer childhood larder.

Creamed corn and a particular type of silver-labeled canned peas are tied to deep memories of preparations for stormy weather. We always had cans of corn, peas and baked beans, and kerosene and candles, in case of emergencies, storms, and power failures.

Food News Daily: August 26, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 26, 2011 Permalink 0

Mainstream Anglo Media and Press

Giant Oreo cake, by SandeeA

Are food prices approaching a violent tipping point?, The Guardian

Salmonella fears spur ban of Mexican papayas, MSNBC Health

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 26, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 26, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

What is a man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?–Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, 1943

Karen Blixen was a Danish writer who wrote under the pseudo name Isak Dinesen. She was married to her Swedish second cousin, the Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke. She is best known for her book Out of Africa about her time living on her coffee plantation in the hills of Kenya, and for her short story “Babette’s Feast,” both of which were adapted into Academy Award-winning films.

Food News Daily: August 25, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 25, 2011 Permalink 0

Mainstream Anglo Media and Press

The Very Tasty Liberation of Paris, GQ

Fine wine galore! Hong Kong’s buried treasure, The Independent

New Nordic Cuisine Draws Disciples, The New York Times

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 25, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, August 25, 2011 Permalink 0

The best number for dinner party is two – myself and a damn good head waiter.–Nubar Gulbenkian, 1965

Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972) was an Armenian petroleum magnate and socialite born in the Ottoman empire. Click here to read more about about him.

Food News Daily: August 24, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Permalink 0

Mainstream Anglo Media and Press

Bending the Rules on Bacteria (Harold McGee), The New York Times

True Food (a video), National Geographic

True Characters: You and Barry McBride have set up a restaurant with no name and no prices in Killarney, Irish Times

David Downie: some restaurants to add to the Food Wine Burgundy guidebook

Published by David Downie + Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by David Downie

Change is the nature of the edibles-and-potables business everywhere. In Burgundy the region’s symbol is the snail. Change comes slowly. But the snail, like the tortoise, defeats the hare in the long run—or the long slide.

Cuppa? Change-resistance is part of the Gallic gene pool

The down-slide first: reliable fellow gourmets who scour Burgundy for great food and wine confirm that Amaryllis, the discovery of a few years back, is being spoiled by success. Michelin rewarded this unlikely candidate with a star after only a few years of operation, and crowds and crowns of laurels soon followed. So too did a precipitous move from funky quarters in an unattractive highway-side location in a nowhere village – part of the discovery experience – to fancy-dancy, flower-filled premises: the former home of stuffy-but-likeable Le Moulin de Martorey. This reconverted millhouse complex is at San Remy, near Chalon-sur-Saone. Now Amaryllis and its still-very-young chef-owner Cédric Burtin is becoming staid, in a beautiful, mainstream setting… another one-star Michelin place serving elaborately plated, microscopic portions of France’s notorious silly haute food.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 24, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Permalink 0

by Simon de Swaan

A hungry man is not a free man.–Adlai Stevenson II, 1952

Adlai Stevenson ran for the office of the Presidency in 1952 and 1956 against Dwight D. Eisenhower but lost the election both times. After his election to the White House, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, where his most famous moment occurred on October 25, 1962, during an emergency session of the U.N. Ambassador Stevenson was grandson of Adlai Stevenson I. who was Vice President under President Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897.

Click here to listen to Adlai Stevenson talking to the Soviet Ambassador to the U.N. at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 17, 2011
Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, August 9, 2011
Let my People GO!

French Food Quote: Daily Food Quotes, August 23, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Permalink 0

by Jonell Galloway

The funeral home employee asked the widow if her husband were incinerated, would she rather it be in a French oven or an Italian oven. She replied: “Oh, a French oven! My husband couldn’t stand Italian food!–Alphonse Allais

L’employée des pompes funèbres demandait à la veuve si on brûlerait son mari qu’on devait incinérer, dans un four français ou un four italien : “Oh ! monsieur, le four français ! Mon mari ne pouvait pas sentir la cuisine italienne ! — Alphonse Allais