Tag Archives: Food and Cooking

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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Food: A Writer’s Secret World-Building Weapon

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

Food is an integral part of world-building, whether it plays a direct role in the plot or not. Its availability and quality affect every human endeavor, and scarcity – or fear of scarcity – is a powerful motivation for conflict. … Continue reading →


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Exactly What I Wanted: Restaurant Reading

Posted on January 9, 2010 by

As a result of a new project I’ve got under contract, I’ve found myself delving into a massive pile of kitchen memoirs this year.  As part of Book View Cafe’s “Exactly What I Wanted,” reading recommendations, I thought I’d share … Continue reading →


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Walking the Big Apple

Posted on October 24, 2009 by

Writing speculative and fantastic fiction as I do, I don’t get to actually visit the places I write about much, so I really enjoy it when I can.  And when I do visit, I seldom examine things minutely, what I’m … Continue reading →


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Macrobiotics #6: 10 things you might not know about beans

Posted on May 8, 2009 by

1.) Did you know that you don’t need to soak beans? Macrobiotics teacher and cookbook author Christina Pirello was once challenged to a cook-off. The tiny Italian grandmother told her people would get indigestion eating soaked beans. When their cook-off … Continue reading →


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