Despite my comment on fusions back in the Shepherd’s Pie entry, I really don’t hate on anyone who does it. Pretty much everything creative in life came about from taking several ideas and fusing them into a new idea.  It’s like when you take eggs, flour, sugar, and milk, and end up with a beautiful cake.   [...]

To this day, I’ve always been surprised at the poor opinion many share of English and Irish cuisine. The noted opinions came from comedians like Denis Leary and Tim Allen, with ideas that the food is boiled all day into a nice liquid you can sip through a straw or it’s just plain bland. In [...]

Despite that the movie has been in theaters and now on DVD for a while, I finally got around to watching Julie and Julia (God bless Netflix). Director Nora Ephron was correct in how she made the food part of the cast. Throughout the movie, the viewer is not only given a glimpse of the [...]

One of the biggest reasons I started this web site was that I felt there’s too much emphasis on only a few cuisines of the world.  I turn on the TV and it’s all Italian, French, Asian, and American BBQ.  I look at books and see some more variety, but it’s hard to come up [...]

I was flipping through my copy of Culinaria Italy, and early in the book the authors told of Friuli, a region up in Northern Italy. I read an interesting story of polenta and how it came to be in Friuli back in the 17th century. It was a tale of an oppressive Venetian government and [...]