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Texas: A Historic Chuck Wagon Lunch
If you ever get the opportunity to experience a chuck wagon lunch—and, well, unless you're 100 miles south of San Antonio, you might not—let's hope it's with Butch Dohmann. He's been cooking out of dutch ovens for 45 years and after buying a wagon, started a business called Soup Bone Cattle Company with his wife Sue. When we recently ended up in the dusty town of Beeville, Texas while touring cattle ranches, we pulled up to the chuck wagon lunch. There was Butch in his apron, stirring a big cast-iron.Serious Reads: Empires of Food, by Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas
Perhaps Eat, Pray, Love was your foodie beach read this summer. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations is the antidote that will fill you with historical food facts to share with friends.Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Edible Hand-Me-Downs
Last week on the Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we asked all of you to share your favorite Edible Hand-Me-Downs: favorite recipes, cookware, and techniques that have been handed down though your family. Since the majority of us learned at least a little something about cooking and eating in our family kitchens and dinner tables, this Cook and Tell proved to be a popular one. Let's take a look at some of our tastiest family heirlooms.What Does Barbecue Mean? A Word with Many Origin Stories
I'll be honest: As I walked from tent to tent at the Big Apple BBQ Block Party, this year asking various cooks for their definitions of barbecue, I thought I'd come away with more controversial answers. I was happy to see barbecue recognized as the culinary glue that binds traditions from across the United States. Still, the basic response of "low and slow" seemed to preempt the semantic shouting contests that tend to go hand in hoof with barbecue culture. For every word that celebrates the diversity of barbecue,. it seems like a bible's worth of conjecture and contention has been delivered on its "true" meaningSnapshots from the UK: Rules, London's Oldest Restaurant
"It's a place where you feel like you should sit up straight but you're too weighed down by the meal to actually do so." Scilly Isles Lobster served cold with asparagus. [Photographs: Kerry Saretsky] After living in England for a year, I can attest that the country is as steeped in history as its tea is steeped in water. It’s also a place where, admittedly, I had a hard time eating happily. I love stews, fish, cheese, peas, and anything fried, so I couldn’t understand why the food and I never got along. But I was always on a quest for really excellent old English food and at Rules, the oldest restaurant in London, I finally found it. Smoked Highland...The Hard-To-Find Grocer
No, this is not the name of a grocery store hidden behind some trees—it is an online grocery store for items that are hard to find. At the Hard-To-Find Grocer, you can find various rare food products, like Sioux City Berry Berry Soda or Van Camp Beanee Weenee. It also carries products from larger brands that often don't make it into stores, such as Duncan Hines Strawberry Supreme Cake. Items are added to the site based on suggestions and requests. Sadly, it doesn't yet have the food of my childhood, Tastykakes (only available in the mid-Atlantic), so I'll have to stay near Philadelphia to get my fix. [via Manhattan Users Guide]...The History of Beer Cans
Photograph from Michigan Beer Buzz Weburbanist rounds up photos of beer cans since the 1930s and shares the history behind beer can design. Although I'm a fan of this uber-generic design, there's an interesting reason behind the need to jazz up the cans: After methods of packaging beer into durable cans were developed, the real treat for consumers and collectors were the colorful designs on the cans. Beer would still not taste great coming from a can for several decades. Manufacturers began releasing special edition and novelty cans with lively images and color schemes to attract consumers and compensate for the canned beer taste. Some of these early cans, if still in good condition, are now worth thousands of...Happy Birthday (Maybe) to the Ice Cream Sundae
On April 3, 1892, the ice cream sundae was born at the Platt & Colt Pharmacy in Ithaca, New York. Or was it born in 1881 at Ed Berners' Ice Cream Parlor in Two Rivers, Wisconsin? What's Cooking America shares some history behind the "Sundae Wars" between these two cities who claim to be the birthplace of the sundae. Ithaca appears to have the most written documentation to back up its claim as the sundae's birthplace, including the oldest record of an ice cream sundae in the form of an ad placed in the Ithaca Daily Journal on October 5, 1892. There's even disagreement about the origins of the word "sundae," the most popular explanation being that it was changed...Serious Grape: Preserving Your Wine History
In January, I received an unexpected gift in the mail from my beloved aunt and godmother: a wine book, full of labels and notes, that she had kept during the1970s when she and my uncle were living in Germany. To make your own, you don't need anything more glamorous or expensive than an unused diary.Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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