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Eating New England
Welcome to Eating New England!
Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps thinks about food more than most people. If she isn't growing, cooking, eating, or writing about it, she's talking about it. Not just how food tastes and what is the newest restaurant, recipe, or technique -- she's also entrenched in the politics of food and wine, as well as culinary history.
New England foods are her bailiwick, but Annie is a restless soul who has traveled to the souks of the Middle East in search of za'atar, observed the tuna auction at the Tsukiji market in Tokyo, pressed olive oil in Sicily, and roasted a goat in Kwa-Zulu Natal South Africa. No matter where she is, she always manages to make a friend and eat (and drink) well.
6 Cookbooks to Sample
With these, you can even make cheese
November 6, 2008 at 9:51 AM | Post a Comment
Who doesn't love a good cookbook? You like to read about food, I assume you like to cook, too. Great cookbooks cross my desk all the time. Here are a few recent ones that have caught my eye and palate.
Do you hanker for a hunk, piece, slice, or chunk of cheese or some other dairy product? Then why not try and make your own? I knew it would be fun, but never imagined how good my own handmade ricotta and mozzarella could taste. Oh, and when your guests ask about it and you say you made it ... well, you become the subject of awe -- a nice bonus. The Home Creamery by Kathy Farrell-Kingsley (Storey Books)
Planning Ahead: A Winter Day in the Kitchen
What would you cook?
October 30, 2008 at 3:10 PM | 7 Comments | Post a Comment
During our weekly editorial meeting my boss, Yankee's editor, Mel Allen, was sparking our creativity, trying to get us to think about winter issues for 2010 (!). He asked us about the perfect snowy winter day and how we would spend it. Most of my colleagues were thinking outside the four walls: skiing, ice fishing, building snowmen. Not me -- I was indoors, in baggy flannel pajama bottoms and that old "Newport" sweatshirt.
So, About Those Cupcakes...
There's a lesson in this
October 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM | 1 Comment | Post a Comment
My darling cousin Kim got married a few weeks ago. Early in the wedding planning, she asked a few family members if they would make cakes for her reception -- she didn't want anything fancy. I was one of the "asked" and couldn't have been happier. But of course, I couldn't make "just a cake." Three weeks before the wedding, I decided to make cupcakes, and I decided to monogram them. All of them.
Maintaining a Blog is Hard Work
Hot grill on the deck in the rain...
October 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM | Post a Comment
As I go through the ins and outs of my sometimes exciting, mostly mundane life, something will happen and I think "oh good -- I'll put this in the blog." But when it comes down to writing, somehow grilling legs of lamb in the rain for my parents 50th wedding anniversary or monogramming cupcakes at 2 a.m. for my cousin Kim's wedding doesn't feel like something anyone would be interested in. Or I start to write and what was meant to be a quick paragraph and it turns into several paragraphs of turgid prose.
Sofra Bakery
Shawarma wraps, almond cakes, Syrian shortbread
September 11, 2008 at 11:52 AM | 2 Comments | Post a Comment
I've mentioned my affection for the great food shops of Watertown, Massachusetts, and my friend, chef Ana Sortun of Oleana. Well, the two have come together. Ana opened Sofra (sofrabakery.com) a few weeks ago. Technically it's in Cambridge, but it's at the split where Mt. Auburn and Belmont streets meet (or separate) -- it's in Camtermontownbridge!
