Baker to the core, gluten might be my best friend. Hand in hand, we skipped through bread hills on the regular. Even during the vegan days, gluten was a food source shaped into lumpy chewy chunks called Seiten and dried chips of TVP (texturized vegetable protein) were stirred into soups and stews. All those chewy [...]
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Pancakes, A Happy Place
Pancakes Of Plenty Growing up, making pancakes meant that we got a box, stirred in milk and eggs with a big spoon and plopped the dough haphazardly onto a skillet. Every little dough bit cooked wether a drippy dot or a pool of batter. Cooked droplets of batter looked more like spetzle than pancakes but [...]
Tickle Me Peaches
Oh the brilliant peach. Ripe and plump, the peach can be virgin like purity cloaked in a temperature sensitive skin. Precious and untouched as it hangs from an unassuming protective tree blushing, the peach hides a soft and aromatic flesh that loves you back once you bring her on down. Possibly the forbidden offspring of [...]
Forgetting Fair Trade?
Well, are we? You tell me. Long ago and not so far away, Fair Trade was the hot topic. People oogled over where coffee came from, searching for a tiny emblem that signified if it was fair trade certified or not. Fair traded seemed to be a move in the right direction; give workers and [...]
Up the River: MS Matters
Gather round now and get your skillets ready… I’m going home! Alright only to visit but it will be a productive and intense time of talking to people, visiting places and eating the fares all in the name of food. Good fair food for all… I can’t wait to get to MS and see what [...]
Mississippi Burning?
Mississippi's Weight Crisis and Our Broken Food System For another year, Mississippi has been named the fattest, most unhealthy state in the country. Adult obesity is highest (32.5%) for the fifth year, and leading the way in childhood obesity (44.4%.) Statistics that are staggering. The result of socioeconomic status, race and cultural norms according to [...]
The Scones of My Life
Scones. People like them more than muffins. I did a study at the Bed and Breakfast, and can say that people want the scones; not the muffins. Alright, all you muffin lovers out there who are now saying "No" please understand this fact, and feel free to write me a loving piece debating the finer [...]
The Case for Chili
It is in the mid 90s. People are sticky with sweat and frozen lemonade or ice cream bars are on every corner. No part of me wants a stick to your ribs bowl of red. Chili that is. Now with eye of any food based investigative reporter (like the title?) I could not help but [...]
Speaking to my Grandfather
What you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Or more specifically: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825 Of course, for me this makes perfect sense, I do not see food as just items from the earth or from [...]
The Egg Came First
For the Love of Eggs I am not an egg eater. Well, I was not at least for most of the past 13 years of my life. Baked with plenty of them; made custards, curds and souffles; fried them for my mother; scrambled them at my father’s elbow in bacon grease; and made my way [...]
Mango Lady
If I was to die, I would think the most pleasant way to go would be suffocation by a smooth and sweet sea of mango. So aromatic and erotic the precious mango. Even with it’s hearty pit, there is no hiding the heavenly mass that rests beneath the colorful flesh and above the woody core. [...]
