Well, yesterday some of you people protested when I wrote that the brawn is probably something no one would cook, and I’m glad because I kind of like the stuff, but you have forced me to double down with another traditional Tudor Christmas dish: the boar head. Wynkyn de Worde, most likely a pseudonym, was […]
A traditional Chinese restaurant that has recently opened here in Milan has a section of the menu that lists “dishes we know you won’t order, but we put them on anyway”. I guess that would be a good subtitle for this post because, continuing my research on the traditional Tudor dishes for a historically accurate […]
I’m sure you know the Mexican pan de muerto, but we have something similar in Northern Italy and I thought I’d give you the recipe today. Since I’m not much of a cook, it’s free to read to minimize my responsibility in any collateral damage.
One of my main characters is basically my version of a lycanthrope: at a cycle approximately coinciding with the full moon, they go berserk and transform into the most fearsome creature their subconscious self can think of. In our case, the character is from the Yoruba Empire (around current Benin) and therefore the predator par […]
«He tastes like salt and sweat, flavored with hop like a Dutch beer». This was supposed to be the sentence in my WIP.Gothic Novel. But historical fiction is tricky and I like to get things right, so I had to ask myself the question: did they use hop for beer in the XVII Century? I […]
– cipolle – carne di manzo macinata (sperando che non sia quella del famoso pasticcio di Elderion) – timo – spinaci (a meno che qualcuno non riesca a procurarsi dei callaloo) – pollo – cipolle rosse – senape – acciughe – porri (e che dio ci aiuti) – pimento (e che dio ci perdoni) – […]
In Italia, clienti e fornitori si affannano per non farti iniziare il lavoro se prima non hai bevuto un cappuccino. All’estero, clienti e fornitori si affannano perché tu possa fare colazione in un posto dove sappiano fare bene il cappuccino. Ragazzi, non so come dirvelo: l’unica cosa che mi piace del cappuccino è la decorazione […]
Articolo dal Manifesto di ieri. Lasciando perdere il bieco merchandising, l’esposizione dei bozzetti è senz’altro interessante e mi dispiace perdermela… sul rapporto tra fiaba e alimentazione avevo un articolo da qualche parte, ma in questo momento non riesco a scovarlo. (immagine a destra: P.J.Lynch, Snow White Queen) I sapori della favola. Il lato gustoso di […]