A tagine is a Moroccan cooking dish that has a unique cone shaped lid that locks in moisture and flavor.  I have just started using this ceramic dish and have found that meats are much more tender and moist than cooking with traditional pots.  I have cooked several meals with this North African pot and [...]

I have done a fair amount of traveling in my life.  Just this year I have been to El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, The Caymans, The Netherlands, and Germany.  During my travels, I am always impressed to see how households supplement their food and income by producing something for themselves.  It could be said that [...]

Pointing to the Japanese practice of eating raw eggs with little to no consequence, Lisa Katayama questions whether American safety warnings may be exaggerated.  “There’s a 1 in 20,000 chance that an egg might contain salmonella, according to the American Egg Board,” she writes, a risk she wonders whether people ought to be willing to [...]

I am a meat-eating, animal-lover, an omnivore who can nonetheless appreciate the value (and personalities) of living, breathing animals, even those that are not typically domesticated.  For example, keeping two pigs as house pets does not keep me from enjoying a bite of pork now and again. Some people may find this hard to [...]

In Iceland, October 24th is considered the First Day of Winter.  The city of Reykjavik is celebrating the day with its traditional Skólavördustígur Icelandic lamb soup, kjötsúpa.The website IcelandicReview shares the recipe:
You can buy up to ten-kilo bags of frozen súpukjöt (“soup meat”) at Icelandic supermarkets for a fair price. The meat has bones and [...]

A warm aura emanated from the perfectly crisp crust. The inside was neither too light nor too dense.  Honed with honey, each thick slice sank into our stomachs like soft, broken earth into a riverbed.
Although it would soon be eroded out of existence, it would be remembered as the best bread Adam had ever [...]

A little while ago, I mentioned that a mysterious egg had been discovered on the premises of Piscataway Acres.  Experts later determined that the egg belonged to the rhea family.  The farm had several offers to purchase the exotic egg from museums and wildlife centers, some of which were offering millions of dollars.  Ultimately, my [...]