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  This week I read White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain and Milk: A Local and Global History by D...

I have been reading about the sense of smell, which I've written about on my other blog. I just read a summary of new research about sen...

New pie weights about to be used  After years and years of using dry beans or rice to weight a pie shell, I finally bought myself some ceram...

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss provides an overwhelming insight: big food companies know much more about how...

I have recently been informed that my aversion to dish drainers is even stranger than my dislike of bananas. Dish drainers, in my view, take...

I love painters who make images of food, and often write about their works here. The L.A.Times food section just reviewed a book about maki...

Alice, Delia, Miriam Delia Miriam Alice, Delia, Miriam Alice, Mae, Delia, Norbert (the Dragon), Miriam Just before we ate them for breakfast