At the moment I’m reading a book called “Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination” by Professor Paul Freedman. As you probably remember from your school days, the procuring of spices was one of the major motivations behind the age of exploration–the search for new routes to faraway lands in pursuit of...
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There are good reasons to cut meat out of your diet. It’s healthier, of course. It will probably save you money and you may even lose weight. And even if you don’t think it of it as a moral choice in terms of animal rights, it’s also good for the environment. According to one...
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Pantries have a way of gathering odd ingredients–canned soups that you bought because they were on sale, half empty boxes of noodles, those little cans of mandarin oranges, a bag of Jaggery you bought one day when you were feeling particularly adventurous and now have no idea what to do with (that one is...
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Roasting Vegetables It always seems to me that having something in the oven warms the house in a more satisfying way than just turning up the thermostat, so when cool fall days come around I find myself thinking, “What shall I bake?”. And since there are only so many baked goods a family can...
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