Negative Space: Glen & Friends
- A Centennial Meal for the Sestercentennial
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How did Americans in 1876 celebrate the centennial culinarily? Some of their recipes are surprisingly modern, and some are unique flavors worthy of resurrecting.
- Hot ovens: Bakers were once the slaves of time
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We have chained time in our kitchens. Our refrigerators stop time from destroying food, and our ovens lash it to the oars for baking. And we have forgotten that it was ever any other way.
- Mom’s High School Cooking Notebook, 1960
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My mother kept her high school recipe notebook for as long as I can remember. It was often on the kitchen counter when the counter was dusted with flour.
- Quiet ovens and Australian rice shortbread
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What is a quiet oven? How do we translate old recipes? Executive summary: 325°; very carefully. Plus, two Australian recipes for rice shortbread as a test of my theory.
- Using search engines to guess cookbook years
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Many cookbooks, especially community cookbooks and often advertising pamphlets, leave off the year. Often, however, there are solid clues in the text that narrow down when the book was published, through simple online searches.
