If you’re like me and enjoy going behind the scenes to get the whole story, to see the process, to meet the families and dig into histories, to understand why things are done, or how, or what led up to a dish, a restaurant, a philosophy, then Michael Gebert might be someone you want to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Thoughts’
December 20, 2008
Newfoundland
One of the most important aspects of traveling to Newfoundland is to pick the right destination. Fortunately, we did fly into the right city—St. John’s—but met several people during our stay who had booked flights to St. John, which is in New Brunswick. Some of these people had used travel agents, too. They then had [...]
December 12, 2008
The Mighty Cod
Cod is considered by many to be the world’s most important saltwater fish. It was certainly the first fish to become widely popular, consumed in large quantities since the Upper Paleolithic period. Nice flavor, white flesh, and flaky texture aside, cod historically has been valued because it has the wonderful quality of being easy to [...]
November 6, 2008
The South American Table…and more
Maria Baez Kijac is an amazing woman. Her experience ranges from cooking shows on PBS to teaching at culinary schools to writing award-wining cookbooks to developing recipes for magazines to hunting down the best dishes to represent the cuisines she loves.
I’ve known Maria for more than seven years now. She is certain that our meeting [...]
March 17, 2008
Delightful Bali
Bali’s famous terraced rice fields
Among my favorite books when I was a child was an elegantly illustrated volume titled Bobra of Bali. In this book, I read of life on a beautiful island, where rice grew in terraced fields, children wore sarongs and went barefoot, women went to temple with towers of food and [...]
March 3, 2008
China Memories
It is interesting sometimes to consider the threads that run through one’s life. We all have interests we’ve accumulated that have nothing to do with what has gone before, but there can be a special gladness in making connections from old loves to new.
When I was a child, one of my favorite books was Little [...]
March 2, 2008
Welcome to the World’s Fare
Food is the world’s preoccupation. One might survive without shelter, but not without food. However, food is more than just nourishment for the body. Food is family, celebration, comfort, culture, tradition. Few other human activities so completely engage our senses, our emotions, and our thoughts as do the preparation and consumption of food.
Food is tied [...]
