October is rich with National Holidays. As you might imagine, many pertain to sweets and we’ll get to these as they pop up. A change of season often implies a change in food cravings and October food highlights seem rather à propos. October is National Pasta Month and National Pizza Festival Month. It is the Month… Continue reading This Week in Food History – 10/02/2017
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This Week in Food History – 09/25/2017
We find it utterly suitable for this month to be National Breakfast Month. Don’t you? Right between summer and autumn, when mornings bring an invigorating chill (although, nature is not exactly following its own trends these days), the thought of a good breakfast is especially inviting. Of course, the breakfast cereal was an inviting proposition… Continue reading This Week in Food History – 09/25/2017
This Week in Food History – 09/18/2017
In addition to being National Potato Month (see last week’s article), September is also National Mushroom Month. Mushrooms are easy to forage plants and Hunter-gatherers were familiar with them, though consumption by ancient people was certainly not associated with haute cuisine, that is unless you consider the Roman table of course. Modern cultivation begins sometime… Continue reading This Week in Food History – 09/18/2017
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