Paper Palate

I am not a procrastinator on all things, but there are some things that I procrastinate with until the last minute. Writing my freelance articles is one example. It seems like my best written articles come to me when I have waited until the very last minute to write them. I do my best work […]

A great little book has come my way - many thanks Dave - you won’t find it in any Amazon list as it was printed in 1948.
Cookery for Men Only by Wilson Midgley certainly comes from a bygone age; remember it was published just after the war when rationing was still ubiquitous in the UK. […]

Earlier this week I looked up my standby recipe for hummus in The New York Times International Cook Book. I’ve had it around for years and consult with it irregularly. But when it comes to hummus, that’s the recipe I love. You can tell by the way the page looks.
Some folks treat their cookbooks the […]

I’ve seen a lot of strange old books. I used to own a used bookstore. The books I sold were in English, though my shop was in Latin America. To put together my stock, I collected boxes upon boxes of cast-off material from literary types in the States and shipped everything to […]

Ok. Yes. It’s a gimmick book made as a promotional item to pray on the unsuspecting fans of an uber-popular television show. And yes, usually books like that stink and offer little in the way of real life cooking.
But this one is different, I tell you.
Cooking with Friends has had a special […]

Between the years of 1880 and 1924, some two million Eastern European and Russian Jews immigrated to the United States to escape from pogroms, poverty, and mandatory conscription in the Russian Army. They settled in many parts of the country, many ending up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Native Milwaukean Lizzie Black Kander was one of the […]