Culinary Stories
Oly Kraut! Plus Ruben Making
This past weekend, I spent with friends I’ve known a long, long time. One from college days and another from young adulthood. We met in Olympia, the Capitol of Washington State. Under the flying pig, the Olympia Farmers Market was abloom with crowds. Everything... read more
1964 Waldorf Astoria Potato Chips
The first night, at the end of our day in New York City, we stayed at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. My mother and her friend Peg took my younger sister, Nancy, and I to the 1964 Worlds Fair to show us the future. A lavish flower arrangement greeted us on the marble... read more
The Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink
I thought of Veronica Williams, the forager of the wild, when I heard about this restaurant in New York State.
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A Square Meal, A Culinary History of the Great Depression
The New York Times review of A Square Meal, A Culinary History of the Great Depression documents an era of history which changed this country in so many ways. As a catalyst for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Social Security, Food Stamps, and The... read more
SHOPPING IN KOTZEBUE
SHOPPING IN KOTZEBUE After you pass the Arctic Circle on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, Kotzebue is the biggest town in which to stock up until Barrow at the top of the world. Originally, it was a summer village for Native Alaskans... read more
Nutty Awakening
Glasnost and Perestroika opened a number of tenuous attempts at business and friendship in the 1980’s between the United States and the dissolved Soviet Union.
Russian fishing fleets arranged a business deal with Pacific Northwest American fishermen.
Lobsters in Maine
College was done for the summer. I’d been invited on a sailing trip with my roommate Jillian, through the islands off Maine’s coast and a stay with her friend Sam in Kennebunkport. Wending the waters through the small bits and larger acreage on the Atlantic’s edge. We... read more
Millers Dining Room
When I was ten years old my family started to go out occasionally to restaurants for Sunday dinner. Many of them were in East Cleveland. It was the 1960’s and the women often had on pillbox hats with matching handbags and shoes. My dad’s ties were narrow then and our... read more
Timberland Lodge Birthday Bash
The floorboards, beams, and timber of this lodge are so hefty – creeping about late at night is no problem – no squeaks! The chair, in one of the cozy rooms off the lobby, I’m sitting in, could hold a sumo wrestler. These are details of a shrine to the... read more
The Duck and Truffle Truck
Standing out in the Cènac Monday market of local produce farms, butchers, cheese makers, and sundries is a long eggplant purple trailer edged with a simple gold trim line below the sparkling window displays of duck everything and truffle euphoria.An aluminum awning... read more
