Jonell Galloway | The Rambling Epicure

Taste Unlocked Equinox 2015

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, September 21, 2015 Permalink 0

Taste Unlocked Autumn Equinox 2015 in Chartres, France

Taste Unlocked 2015 was a great success. Our guests have returned to England, but the house reverberates with the still-fresh memories of their presence and the joys of good food, fine wine and the excellent company we shared. Happy souvenirs of their visit, a few unfinished bottles we tasted will be emptied in coming days, but we shall toast our special guests each time we partake.

I prepared traditional dishes from the Beauce region, using the recipes I’ve researched over the years and the best products from local farmers and producers. These were accompanied by what we consider our local wine, that of the Loire Valley, which starts less than 50 miles down the road from here.

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We kicked off the weekend on Thursday over a dinner of locally farmed duck cooked in Eure-et-Loire apple cider and served with Beauce turnips and carrots and apples. This was followed by a curried green gauge plum sautée with Financier almond cake.

About Jonell Galloway

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 1, 2014 Permalink 1

About Jonell Galloway

I’m Jonell Galloway. I grew up on Wendell Berry and food straight from a backyard Kentucky garden.

The library and my grandparents’ garden and table were my favorite hangouts as a child, and the rest of my life has evolved around them. My house is like an overflowing library, and the “fruits” of my kitchen delight the palates and noses of our family, neighbors and friends.

I had a vision of promoting the loves of my life, food and writing, so I founded the non-profit website The Rambling Epicure in 2009.

My viewpoints about food and writing are mine and are only influenced by my reading, travels and first-hand knowledge. I believe in real food grown in a caring, loving environment without industrial processing. I don’t promote anything – no restaurants, no writers, no brand names – that I don’t truly believe in.

The people I frequent often have the same philosophy, but that is not exclusive. Many are writers and artists who uphold similar ideals and seek similar goals; many are fellow travelers in life.

If you’d like to become part of my world and share my personal food and travel adventures, you can follow me here:

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Food writing and word mastering have always been my line of work. The Rambling Epicure promotes the best food writing by the best writers in the field. In May 2014, respected writer Elatia Harris and I joined to form a food writing community: The Rambling Epicure, Mastering the Art of Food Writing, where you can follow our very active Facebook discussions, writing, and reflections on writing. Our community is inhabited by people like you who want to become a food writer, who seek to improve their food writing, or who are already professional writers in search of a like-minded community, and others who simply like reading food literature.

Click here to follow us. The Rambling Epicure, Mastering the Art of Food Writing

If you’d like to receive the new Rambling Epicure newsletter focusing on food writing, let us know.

Food & Wine Tasting Masterclass, Chartres, France

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, July 30, 2014 Permalink 1

Food and Wine Tasting Masterclass in Chartres, France

18 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2014

Exploring the Food and Wine of the Beauce and the Loire Valley

with James Flewellen and Jonell Galloway

Through a series of tutored workshops, this 4-day weekend workshop will help unlock your tastebuds and introduce the richness of aromas, flavors and textures present in food and wine. Our exploration is enabled through local food from the Beauce and wine from the Loire Valley and coincides with the Chartres Festival of Lights and the Autumnal Equinox.

For course details click here and to make your reservation click here.

Contact: info@tasteunlocked.com.

Food Writing Prompt: Maria Callas in the Kitchen

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Permalink 0

The Rambling Epicure is Changing Faces

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, June 3, 2014 Permalink 0

If you like TRE, you’ve seen the site is in transition. And you’ll like the changes being made there. Here’s what’s staying the same: fabulous articles about food, wine and travel, with visuals to match. Here’s what’s going to be different: a new kind of hub for food writers, unlike anything else on the Internet.

Food Writing Prompts: Style Guide

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, April 14, 2014 Permalink 0

Keep calm and use a style guide.

Tackling Obesity through Food Relationships

Published by Jonell Galloway + Thursday, April 10, 2014 Permalink 0

Swiss Food

by Jonell Galloway

I was recently interviewed for a Swiss Info documentary called “Finding the Right Food Formula.” In the context of recent childhood obesity figures in Switzerland, Veronica De Vore is exploring the Swiss relationship to food and how that might have changed, how it might be related to the rise in childhood obesity.

Click here to listen to the show. I cooked a Kentucky Fried Chicken feast for Veronica, while discussing the more serious matter of relationships to food in the context of my work in mindful eating. (The article also includes an abridged recipe for my grandmothers’ traditional Kentucky Fried Chicken.)

Jonell’s Proustian Rambling

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, April 9, 2014 Permalink 0

Be the poem. Write the poem of your life every day through your kind words and good deeds. When your nights are dark, rise up. Take the rays of the morning sun into your heart and warm it again. Keep writing your poem.

Flowers on the Thiou Canal in Annecy

Published by Jonell Galloway + Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Permalink 0

Flowers on the Thiou Canal in Annecy, France: Documentary Travel Photos, by Jonell Galloway

April 8, 2014 The flowers are in bloom in the canal town of Annecy in France

Jonell’s Proustian Rambling

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, April 4, 2014 Permalink 0

Peter and I are eating dinner. Chopin’s Etudes play in the background; we sit in the midst of our eclectic collection of objets d’art from France and Italy and more exotic ones from Tibet, Persia, India. I am in my element. I am surrounded by music, poetry and art. How have I come to this? My mother. For her, life has been poetry, art, and music, syncopated with dramatic andantes and crescendos, tearing at her guts and ripping them wide open. She took it all in; she swathed herself in its drapery of blood-wrenched red and chilly blue pain. She has not gone gently into that good night; she is a fearless survivor. She has lived through earthquakes and hurricanes and always landed on her feet. I continue to write the poem of my life, blunder through the Gymnopèdes. Mother is playing Scarbo, flitting in and out of the darkness, disappearing and suddenly reappearing. I touch her hand. She hands me a pen.