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Category Archives: Cauliflowers
Condiment or Fish? You Decide
A deep love of food culture and ingredients has my mind flicking backwards and forwards as I go about my day. If my day has me in a space as splendid as Genoa, then you must expect some fire crackers. … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology and Food, Best Pasta, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassserie Lipp, Caesar Salad, Cauliflowers, Fish, Food Marketeers, Food of the Ancients, Food travel, Foraging, French supermarkets, Ligurian, Nonna's Cooking, Origins of our food, Real Italy, Salad, Salad and Digestion, Simple Food, Wild Food
Tagged Acciughe, Anchovies, Ancient Rome, Brasserie Lipp, Bucatini, Chancerelle Family, Chicory, Connétable, Garum, Genoa, Liquamun, Mercado Orientale, Monaco, Monagasque, Puntarelle di Roma, Radicchio, Salsa di Acciughe, Sardines, Via Sotorippa
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Good Greens
This has been a year if ever there was to celebrate green food – this year’s crops have been the best for some time. Peas and broad beans in particular have been special – no horrid mealy texture in either. We have … Continue reading
Posted in Alliums, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassica's, Cauliflowers, Ingredients, Salad, Terroir, Watercress, Wine Making and Viticulture
Tagged Anthony Blake, elebrate, Francis Fod Coppola, Joe Allen, Kistler Vineyards, La Petite Cuisine, Le Loire, Les Halles, Long cooking vegetables, Primeurs, Touragelle
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Broccoli – the Confused Cauliflower with Roman Roots
Broccoli – love it or loathe it, like its cousin, the cauliflower. I love both so don’t understand how you could not like broccoli (or cauliflower). Early botanists were confounded as to quite how it grew its curd, they just knew it did. … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassica's, Cauliflowers, Fish, Healing Foods, Kitchen Tips, Real Italy
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, Broccoli, Chinatown, Chinese Cooking, Cooking techniques, Cooking tips, food, Gareth Jones, George Bush, Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything, Vegetables
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Back off the Cauliflower please
Cauliflower is not to be sneered at – two French courts revered them – even two hairy bikers can’t knock that one – Du Barry is a dream, not a Welsh town. Continue reading