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Category Archives: Citrus Fruit
Sauce Source
Why does sauce making get folks into such a proper lather? Gravies and sauces get confused. How to present a dish in its full glory? The routine is familiar and would have been heard in a million or more homes … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alliums, Batterie, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Burgundy, Chicken, Citrus Fruit, Fonds and Jus, Great Chefs, Onions, Stocks and Stock Making, Wild Funghi
Tagged Airelles, Aromatics, Auguste Escoffier, Calvados, Citrus, Cognac, Confits, Dried Porcini, Escoffier, Fonds, Fumets, Good Vinegars, Sauciers, Stocks, Wine
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Feta that’ll not Make you Feta’r
You all know the expression in English ‘as different as chalk and cheese’ – I’d reckon it must have been dreamed up to describe Feta cheese. Most Feta on sale is one-dimensional, chalky, overly saline and utterly pointless. The original barrel-aged Feta, … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology and Food, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Citrus Fruit, DOP, Food of the Ancients, IGP, Ingredients, Origins of our food, Real Italy, Salad, Salad and Digestion, Seasoning, Simple Food, Southern Italy
Tagged Al-dente, Ancient Rome, Barrel-aged Feta Cheese, Cretan Feta, Cretan Lifestyle, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome, Farro, Mediterranean Diet, Mint, Neal's Yard Dairy, Pelopennese, Rosie Barron, Sicilian new season Tomatoes, The Roman Army, Thesaloniki, Unwaxed Sicilian Lemons
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Cruel Chocolate
It’s not the chocolate that’s cruel, it’s me, your writer. This being chocolate’s big week for sales and I am writing about two extraordinary chocolate varieties which you’ll not be able to find unless a) you’re amidst the excitement that is Marseille, or … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology and Food, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Citrus Fruit, French Regional Foods
Tagged 'Conching', Angers, Ardoise, Croquants, E/V Olive Oil Chocolate, Indigo, L'Esperantine de Marseille, Les Quernons, Lindt, Lindt & Sprungli, Marseille, Olives and Olive Leaves, Praline, Swiss Milk Chocolate
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SIA 2012 will be Ferrets to Foie Gras, Fine Foods and All
Excitement builds across France this week, as well as for this writer - I’m like a 5 year old those few days before Christmas Eve. Why? Because we are a few days off the opening of the ‘grande spectacle’ that is the 2012 … Continue reading
Posted in Agrumes, Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassserie Lipp, Bread, Capon, Chicken, Fish, Foie Gras, Food Influencers, Food Marketeers, Food travel, French Markets, French supermarkets, Graisse d'oie and Confit de Canard, Guinea Fowl, Label Rouge, Latest Trends, Lenten traditions, No Compromise Shopping, Oysters and Shellfish, Pigeoneau, Poulet, Poulet de Gournay, Poulet Fermier, Simple Food, South West French Cuisine, supermarkets, Terroir, The Food Business, Veal, Wild Food, Wild Funghi, Wine Making and Viticulture
Tagged Basse-Cour Farming, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Chapons, Concours General, Ducks & Geese, Paris, Porte de Versailles, Poulets Fermiers, Rare Breeds, Salon des Fromages, Salon International de l'Agricole, SIA 2012
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Table Quails are Males
Quails are cute little round, feathered bundles whose sound is more a squeak than a chirrup. Their meat is less sought after than their eggs, so quails sold for cooking are the male by-product of a lucrative egg business. Animals, like … Continue reading
Posted in Agrumes, Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Citrus Fruit, Foie Gras, Food travel, Foraging, French supermarkets, Perfect Eggs, Quail & Quail's Eggs, Real Italy, Simple Food, Southern Italy
Tagged Cepes de Bordeaux, Civitavecchia, Foie Gras, Gull's Eggs, Melun, Quail, Quail Eggs, Spaetzle
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Pockmarked and the better for that too
I have family connections with the Spanish citrus business through the Casanova family. Years ago, I also worked for a time with South African citrus growers’ cooperative when they sold their fruit through the original Covent Garden Market in central London. … Continue reading