Claudia Roden Portrait

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DqMnSz_HD7vOrsQdsCb8AwXyFLCuj6OfbsSEBn-7cziWU5rmC9c0S05YnLg4Ri6NSep2sGkrsyKfiwZk_K4YmryyQBBZ0_p2moEREvBeOuzixZlG_F-TzU1MliL3qLRpA7UNmxUbiqrW/s1600/Claudia_roden_MIL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DqMnSz_HD7vOrsQdsCb8AwXyFLCuj6OfbsSEBn-7cziWU5rmC9c0S05YnLg4Ri6NSep2sGkrsyKfiwZk_K4YmryyQBBZ0_p2moEREvBeOuzixZlG_F-TzU1MliL3qLRpA7UNmxUbiqrW/s200/Claudia_roden_MIL.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roden as seen in <i>More Intelligent Life</i></td></tr></tbody></table>The magazine <i>More Intelligent Life</i> today offers an overview of the work of Claudia Roden: "<a href="http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/anonymous/claudia-roden">Claudia Roden's Succinct Taste</a>."<br /><br />I'm fond of Roden's cookbooks, both as works of cooking literature and as sources to cook from. My favorite is <i>A Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day</i>. I agree with the article's author, Josie Delap, that "Roden channels a thousand years of Middle Eastern and Jewish cooks, from the medieval palaces of Baghdad to the shtetls of eastern Europe."

Claudia Roden Portrait

Roden as seen in More Intelligent Life The magazine More Intelligent Life today offers an overview of the work of Claudia Roden: " Cla...

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How we smell and taste

A recent article in the <i>Guardian</i> -- "<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/apr/23/what-makes-eating-so-satisfying">What makes eating so satisfying?</a>" -- summarized some of the research on how the brain and sensory organs work together to create flavor and enjoyment in eating and drinking. This fit very well with my recent project to learn more about human responses to aromas and smells as I have been writing <a href="http://maetravels.blogspot.com/search/label/aromas%20and%20odors">here</a>.<br /><br />The author had several things to say about the complex pleasure of smelling and tasting wine.When you sniff a wine, the article points out, you perceive the most volatile aromas first, followed by those that are stirred up when you swirl the contents of your glass.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy4pYeoLuEBUghuuv3l8qdJVe63K2mSJt32h9L4DAFBAcAEUhlTZFizUp1aY9vMVSCVWEexa5oQ_n1xU2nKbODIK7NkOckkRJcHeNueqh2WnVxSlcrqQI1aiW7nWd_Wn9LyuaQpIXFfFY2/s1600/Wine-tasting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy4pYeoLuEBUghuuv3l8qdJVe63K2mSJt32h9L4DAFBAcAEUhlTZFizUp1aY9vMVSCVWEexa5oQ_n1xU2nKbODIK7NkOckkRJcHeNueqh2WnVxSlcrqQI1aiW7nWd_Wn9LyuaQpIXFfFY2/s320/Wine-tasting.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: start;">From the article: With wine, it is easy to confuse the two separate <br />entities of taste and smell. Photograph: David Levene</span> </td></tr></tbody></table>The complexity of the taste receptors on the tongue isn't quite what one learned in the past: the old "map" of taste buds has been superseded by recent research, says the <i>Guardian</i>. "The current consensus is that tastebuds all over the mouth carry receptors for all the basic tastes, it's just that there are higher concentrations of those four tastes in their designated areas."<br /><br />The following example illustrates the article's point that perceptions of flavors in fact reside in the brain and on memories and learned reactions, citing Professor Barry Smith of London University's Centre for the Study of the Senses:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">It is easy to confuse the two separate entities of taste and smell, and the latter holds great sway over how something will taste when it reaches your mouth. For example, westerners associate the aroma vanilla with sweetness (which is a taste – we can't actually smell sweet) so strongly that if vanilla is added to food, we'll think </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11565908" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">it tastes sweeter than it really is</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">. But connections such as this are, adds Smith, "learned by the brain, not by you". If you are given a drink that has traces of sugar and vanilla that you wouldn't detect if they were on their own, the two together will taste sweet to you. Unless you're from Asia, where vanilla tends to be associated with salty food.</span> </blockquote>The role of the brain in creating flavor is the subject of an entire book that I read in the course of my project: <i>Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters</i> by Gordon Shepherd. The connection made me find this example especially interesting.<br /><br />Enjoyment of food also depends on visual cues, especially color, and on the sounds one hears while eating, says the <i>Guardian</i>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">In 2008, the Oxford professor Charles Spence won the </span><a href="http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Ig Nobel prize</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> for proving the importance of noise when eating crunchy snacks. The study showed that people think Pringles "taste" stale when they're less crunchy, even though the taste and smell remain normal. He then put headphones on his munching participants, amplifying the sounds of their own crunching. The louder the crunch, the fresher and crisper the Pringles were reported to be. This is why, says Smith, "they make bags of crisps so noisy, to get the brain to think: fresh fresh fresh."</span> </blockquote>Quite a fascinating article!

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A Food Artist

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjRg6BiyOthhyY4c26x5PIFICHytGbyNAUv-6EBO3bu2LPBqPzZMH5299PU1tj6N-tP3UcJX5pIieGQx3_ksZpiB92v4wMly_Y-xs-hjMtxEZiHkjVoglD_lZnrPcbwlwVDCQLKwZ5hJK/s1600/rivera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjRg6BiyOthhyY4c26x5PIFICHytGbyNAUv-6EBO3bu2LPBqPzZMH5299PU1tj6N-tP3UcJX5pIieGQx3_ksZpiB92v4wMly_Y-xs-hjMtxEZiHkjVoglD_lZnrPcbwlwVDCQLKwZ5hJK/s320/rivera.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrPQ1pvMLY5e9ofjtzkhg_BPZDiKki2F4DxR9uZSinpjFBRPnertHeD2xRs-590Sd42xfKBQ9AM7z0Wklo3-5geWDp3iHGsiiZp3nRgZJr6hJViXoaJJjm09mj7cKctdAhJnIMtI-g1rlA/s1600/rivera2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrPQ1pvMLY5e9ofjtzkhg_BPZDiKki2F4DxR9uZSinpjFBRPnertHeD2xRs-590Sd42xfKBQ9AM7z0Wklo3-5geWDp3iHGsiiZp3nRgZJr6hJViXoaJJjm09mj7cKctdAhJnIMtI-g1rlA/s320/rivera2.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br />In today's <a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/front-burner-19/?ref=dining">Diner's Journal</a> in the <i>New York Times</i>: a reference to the work of Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, a nephew of the famous Diego Rivera. Alvarado-Rivera was born in 1956, and studied in France and his native Mexico.<br /><br /> "Alvarado-Rivera has devoted most of his pictorial work to the representation of fruits, flowers, and vegetables blooming and ripening," says his brief biography on the <a href="http://ruizhealyart.com/index.php/artists/item/pedro-diego-alvarado-rivera.html?category_id=2">webpage of a gallery</a> where his works are on display (and where I found these images). While still-life works aren't always exactly food works, I think these images are appetizing.

A Food Artist

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Easy as boiling eggs?

I've always thought it was easy to hard-boil eggs and I've been dubious about long complicated explanations. I always put them in cold water, bring them to a boil, and leave them for 12 minutes.<br /><br />Yesterday I had a shock when I started peeling the eggs I had boiled according to this method earlier in the day -- they were still soft, though done enough to eat. I forgot that I'm up here on a mountain at 8000 feet where water boils at a much lower temperature -- in the 190s not at around 212 like at home. Seems as though I should let them spend longer with the water at a rolling boil, and also leave them longer after turning off the burner. I'll give it a try.<br /><br />I wonder what else is different, and I wonder why I never noticed this during prior trips. I guess I didn't happen to boil any eggs.<br /><br />UPDATE: on my second try, I left the eggs for 5 mins on a slow boil and then 20 mins on simmer and they were perfect for making egg salad. No greenish rim around the yolk, either.

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In Aspen

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7BnF-DjR1rJ9eCOkNw49M4xnSNvfbSmOFnXkaU0D2YMIRrvEif5Hum1WxZLSB2Czu48TNMcHKDXnNx-QtcWf75wxPPQIiWL_2o_VkqPWTI-r1SWh0pStvj1JY9_83-Zc-hJvm1C6qM2Od/s1600/cheers0782.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7BnF-DjR1rJ9eCOkNw49M4xnSNvfbSmOFnXkaU0D2YMIRrvEif5Hum1WxZLSB2Czu48TNMcHKDXnNx-QtcWf75wxPPQIiWL_2o_VkqPWTI-r1SWh0pStvj1JY9_83-Zc-hJvm1C6qM2Od/s400/cheers0782.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First dinner at the apartment where we'll be staying for the next 3 weeks in Aspen, Colorado.<br />Same apartment where we stayed in June, 2011</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6THcOYwAk2fBTu4NiXMuPFYpIFVSglA9p99_70KsMmoUwxYty1gGGSKHNJEh4-_BDnjKAe4REkRVC01JW4hKEn-LiEAmaJabIrF4rVakDBgZV_Biz25tlc0idUJVigZu6Lgb67wvTJ1X/s1600/cheers0783.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6THcOYwAk2fBTu4NiXMuPFYpIFVSglA9p99_70KsMmoUwxYty1gGGSKHNJEh4-_BDnjKAe4REkRVC01JW4hKEn-LiEAmaJabIrF4rVakDBgZV_Biz25tlc0idUJVigZu6Lgb67wvTJ1X/s400/cheers0783.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheers! </td></tr></tbody></table><br />

In Aspen

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Looking forward to Paris

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Garlic Smells

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6siLrxZNBBmdoqmfE5UMcAILPhIFdJkWeUnzPkPlRBEP8rA_Z1Ln6eW8aPSG_fVxLqwHcKjHGBKFWlsqI-KQC7K5JNsSYveMDInYP5dE6cIc4GbKBcn73M-VyPOhvsXAAAIO-eMbdfgI/s1600/Pickle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6siLrxZNBBmdoqmfE5UMcAILPhIFdJkWeUnzPkPlRBEP8rA_Z1Ln6eW8aPSG_fVxLqwHcKjHGBKFWlsqI-KQC7K5JNsSYveMDInYP5dE6cIc4GbKBcn73M-VyPOhvsXAAAIO-eMbdfgI/s320/Pickle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />"Can I smell the pickles?" I used to ask when I was a small child and my father took me to a delicatessan. I only vaguely remember the deli, which we must have walked to (no car), but I remember the wooden pickle barrel, which was almost as tall as I was. The deli man would take off the barrel's lid, and I would put my nose near but not too near to the curing cucumbers and green tomatoes in greenish brine, and sniff -- garlic, dill, vinegar.<br /><br />My father would ask for a half-sour pickle or pickled tomato and buy half a pound of corned beef, if my memory is right. The deli man knew which pickles had been in the barrel just the right amount of time. I think he and my father knew each other from some other time or place, but my memories are vague, except for the delicious smell from the pickles. Kosher-garlic-pickle smell is still noticeable in the blend of smells in a deli, along with the garlic from the pastrami.<br /><br />Smell-resistant American culture in the past, like proper British culture, classified garlic as foreign and offensive, but Americans slowly got used to garlic as group after group of immigrants enjoyed it and then popularized it along with their cuisines. I guess garlic came in by a back door near the famous "golden door." Americans looked down on Italians at first, but soon learned to love pizza, spaghetti, and garlic bread, getting used to the cheesy, yeasty, herbal and garlicy aroma of Italian restaurants in the early 20th century.<br /><br />Chinese restaurants became trendy in America several times, beginning, surprisingly, as early as the mid-19th century. Fresh garlic and ginger sauteed in hot oil are the now-familiar start of many stir-fried Chinese dishes, so the smell of garlic is definitely a component of the characteristic Chinese-restaurant aroma. Korean restaurants, which also use lots of garlic in strong-flavored dishes like kim chee, are growing in popularity now. Though I've never tried any of the famous foods from a Korean taco truck, I imagine a powerful aroma that's partly garlic and fermented cabbage and partly tortillas, maybe with a whiff of hot lard for frying as I would expect in a taqueria.<br /><br />"The first thing you smell at the Huy Fong Foods factory in suburban Los Angeles is the overwhelming aroma of garlic, a key ingredient in the company’s signature product: Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce," wrote Caleb Hannan in "Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster,'" in <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-21/sriracha-hot-sauce-catches-fire-with-only-one-rooster">Bloomberg Business week</a> recently. "Last year, the company sold 20 million bottles." Originally part of Thai cuisine, sriracha sauce in America has become synonymous with the Huy Fong LA version and its rooster logo. The popularity of garlic-heavy Thai food and above all sriracha sauce is a recent thing in America.<br /><br />Japanese cooking isn't known for garlic, but a Japanese friend told me that families there use garlic in cooking only on Friday and Saturday night to avoid offensive garlic breath when they go to work or to school on weekdays. Though not a traditional flavor in the type of sushi that's very popular here, garlic is used in raw beef dishes in Japan and in a few other foods. Similarly, garlic isn't a dominant flavor in the Indian food that Americans are accustomed to, but has its place in some regions. Maybe the garlic-flavored preparations from these cultures will reach American diners some day.<br /><br />French cuisine dominated fine dining in America in the 19th and much of the 20th century. Garlic was a pretty muted element in French haute cuisine, and I suspect that even chefs who trained in France tended to avoid garlic aromas when adapting their cuisine to America or England. But maybe not completely -- consider this:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> "<i>La Cuisine Pratique</i> [a recipe collection from 1902 used at the cooking classes held at the Cordon Bleu school in Paris] occasionally contains stories about chefs. One, 'Le Secret de Francatelli,' discusses the salads he prepared during his tenure at the Reform Club in London. A customer commented on the wonderful aroma that wafted from the salad when it arrived at the table. The secret? Garlic, crushed in the chef's teeth while he tossed the salad. The smell of his breath helped create that indefinable aroma. The piece ends by saying that the customer thanked Francatelli profusely, but remarked that perhaps he would not admire the salads as much in the future." (from <i>Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession</i> by Amy B. Trubek, p. 28)</blockquote>The smell of garlic has a complicated reputation. If you eat garlic, some people believe, mosquitos will avoid you; maybe this works. Italian mothers once burdened their children with necklaces of garlic. This made the children unpopular, but the mothers insisted because they thought the smell prevented colds or other diseases. In Eastern European folklore, garlic cloves and garlic breath or body odor functioned not only as an effective vampire repellant, but also as a charm against the evil eye and other malicious spirits or devils. (The Andaman Islanders <a href="http://maetravels.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-spirits-can-smell-you.html">that I wrote about</a> aren't the only ones whose spirits can smell you. For lots more garlic superstitions and history, check <a href="http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/10/garlic_superstitions_folklore.html">this American Folklore page</a>.)<br /><br />Garlic can be loved or hated. If your mother ate garlic before you were born, you probably like it better than if she did not: garlic, in a prenatal diet, can be detected in the amniotic fluid, as can other types of flavor/aroma. The presence of garlic has an influence on "after-birth preference lasting into childhood. ... the neural system for the basic hedonic responses to taste, in terms of attraction or repulsion, is in the brain stem and is active in the newborn. The learning of these preferences in utero and their emotional expression are therefore incorporated into this hardwired system." (from <i>Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why it Matters</i> by Gordon M. Shepherd,  p. 234)<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Photo from Wikimedia commons. This post also appears on my travel blog.</i></span>

Garlic Smells

"Can I smell the pickles?" I used to ask when I was a small child and my father took me to a delicatessan. I only vaguely remember...

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