Category Archives: Food and Cooking

BVC Eats: greasy food revisited – Baked Eggs

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

How many bowling balls can you eat? Exactly. Continue reading →


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How Feminism Killed Cooking

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

I read an article on Salon yesterday: “Is Michael Pollan a Sexist Pig?” by a writer named Emily Matchar.  The title is, of course, very tongue in cheek; the article is about the omnivore/ locavore/ femivore movements, and about the myths we … Continue reading →


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Stranger in a Strange Kitchen, 03.14: Pi(e) Day!

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

Up until last year, of course, I was obliged to laugh at Pi Day, because – as any fule kno – the date is properly written 14/3, not 3/14. However, hubris is its own reward, and here I am in … Continue reading →


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BVC Eats: Jennifer Stevenson’s Mexican Casserole

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

This stuff will kill you, but you won’t care. It’s intense, dense, and more-ish. Continue reading →


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Stranger in a Strange Kitchen, 03: One Man’s Meat

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

I really hadn’t expected this, when I moved from the UK to California. I knew that some ingredients would be hard or impossible to come by, just as some would be utterly new – but a cow’s a cow, right? … Continue reading →


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BVC Eats: Rosemary Wolfe and the Barbecue Chicken Wings

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

I invented these when Gene & Rosemary Wolfe came over for a barbecue and Rosemary requested chicken. Continue reading →


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Stranger in a Strange Kitchen, 02: The Preservation of the Nation

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

Preserves, conserves. Jams and marmalades (anyone for onion marmalade? or oxtail marmalade?). Pickles and chutneys. Canning and bottling and smoking and drying and salting and and and. Every nation has its own methods and traditions, its own terminology – and, … Continue reading →


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BVC Eats: Scrapple

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

When you want to eat it, slice it thick or thin, fry it in bacon grease on a hot iron pan or griddle, and serve with butter and honey or maple syrup or sorghum syrup. Some people put butter on top, too. Continue reading →


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Stranger in a Strange Kitchen, 01: Measured Words

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

Some call it emigration or immigration, depending on their point of view (and PoV, as we know, is all-important). Some call it exile, or translocation, or fleeing-the-country. Whatever you choose to call it, the facts remain: we have shifted two … Continue reading →


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BVC Eats: Rich’s Favorite Tump Chili

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

I believe in easy cooking. If it takes longer than fifteen minutes to assemble, it’s too hard. This is not because I lack the patience to cook more elaborately. It is because my darling husband’s stomach comes with an alarm clock that goes off promptly at six every evening. If we are not sitting down to eat by then, he wants to know exactly how long it’s gonna be, because he’s starving. Continue reading →


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