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Food Play: Saint John’s Coca, a Catalan specialty
by SandeeA
Para leer la versión en español, pinche aquí
Saint John’s coca is a typical Catalonian sweetened bread eaten during the celebration of Saint John’s Eve in June. It is usually oval, but I wanted to give it a a playful twist… would you like to try some?
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Food Play: Coca de San Juan, especialidad de Catalunya
por SandeeA
Click here to read English version
La coca de San Juan es un dulce típico de Cataluña para celebrar la Noche de San Juan, que se celebra del 23 al 24 de Junio. La forma típica es de una coca ovalada, pero yo he querido darle un toque diferente… te animas a probarla?
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The Rambling Epicure Voices
Jenn Oliver writes our column Culinary Chemistry. She has a Ph.D. in science, where she explains the scientific aspects of what really goes on when you cook (the next Harold McGee?). She’s been running a gluten-free blog, Jenn Cuisine, since 2008 and her kitchen is more like a laboratory than a kitchen. She’s focuses her chemical calculations and experiments on figuring out how to make traditionally glutinous food gluten-free.
Esmaa Self writes the Wild Woman on Feral Acres column. She lives on a small farm in Colorado where she employs organic and sustainable methods to grow fruits, vegetables and herbs, raise chickens, bees and fish and where she routinely turns out imaginative, healthy, guilt-free meals from scratch. One of her numerous blogs recounts her farming adventures: Backyard Eggs. She also writes novels and contributes to numerous organic farming and green publications, and runs a sustainable living site, Homeostasis.
Simon de Swaan is Food and Beverage Director at the Four Seasons hotel in New York City. He studied at the Culinary Institute of America and has an incredible collection of antique cookbooks and books about food and eating, from which he often posts interesting and unusual quotes. In his column Simon Says, he gives us daily food quotes from his tomes.
Jean-Philippe de Tonnac is an essayist, editor and journalist. He directed the special editions of the Nouvel Observateur for almost ten years and and has published twenty books. As preparation for publication of his Universal Dictionary of Bread (Dictionnaire universel du pain, Bouquins Laffont, 2010), he obtained a baker’s certificate (CAP) at the Ecole de Boulangerie et Pâtisserie de Paris in 2007, and traveled worldwide to countries where bread held a particular cultural significance.
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