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Bacalao con huevos
COD WITH EGGS: Make a sauce from eggs, parsley, garlic, and breadcrumbs; once it is cooked, stir into the sauce, cod pieces and fry in butter. Is it possible for a recipe to be too simple? I bought the parsley for this – which would have looked LOVELY – and left them in the refrigerator. [...]
Ouefs à l’ail
Take 10 cloves of garlic, cooked in water for 15 minutes (I skipped this – the French, at this point, were still afraid that garlic would DO THINGS TO YOU because it was too powerful), crushed with 2 anchovies, a good pinch of capers (do you pinch capers? That’s a funny measurement even for the [...]
Salmon with a little Italian Sauce from Soupers de la Cour (1755)
Soupers de la Cour, by Menon, is the last major pre-revolutionary cookbook, and though it doesn’t have the over the top, debauched, pyrotechnics of Le Cuisinier Gascon, its solid, well thought out recipes are more indicative of the state of haute cuisine (Menon wasn’t himself a snob though, he had already written La Cuisiniere bourgeoise [...]
Octopus is a vile fish of little worth – Martino di Como
People have been eating octopus for at least the better part of 4000 years. At some point the popularity of the dish waned outside of the Mediterranean and Africa (or, as in the U.S., never caught on), leaving it as bit of a curiosity in Northern Europe and the Americas. It’s an important member of [...]
Food in the Americas – The History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni
Some of the first images of Native Americans in the New World were captured in La Historia del Mondo Nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese, Venetia, 1565. Most of the images are of everyday life in South America (when they don’t depict the violence of the Spanish against the natives – a violence that, while [...]
Salt Cod is Usually Delicious
I’m a big salt cod proponent – it’s semi-cheap (once you factor in how you’re not paying for the water), much tastier than normal fish because the drying process concentrates the flavors, and it keeps forever. So, this recipe seemed like it would be a simple, pleasant success. It wasn’t a train wreck, but… This [...]
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