"Malty beer resonates with the caramelized skin of a turkey and brings out the herbal flavors in stuffing." [Photograph: Maggie Hoffman] If you want to eat like the Pilgrims this Thanksgiving, you should probably get busy hunting for deer and wild ducks. But if you want to drink Pilgrim-style, you just need to get yourself some beer! The colonists believed that beer was usually safer to drink than water and worried about drinking their barrels dry. After dithering too long over where to locate their settlement, the passengers of the Mayflower finally chose Plymouth just before a harsh winter began. William Bradford wrote, "We could not now take much time for further search [for an ideal destination,] our victuals being...
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Okay, so it's a few days late for Passover, and I apologize for that profusely, but these dioramas of Peeps reenacting the Ten Plagues of Egypt are hilarious nonetheless. [via Dooce]...
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Samir Nassar is Eastern Orthodox and his wife Georgette is Catholic, so they and their two sons usually celebrate Easter twice a year. This year both Easters fall on April 8, and so they invited Karola Saekel of the San Francisco Chronicle into their home to see "what a typical Palestinian Christian Easter meal looks and tastes like." The Nassars were both raised in large families and have relatives in the Bay Area, so they expect about 50 people to come and eat with them on Easter Sunday—all of whom will be getting leftovers. "'Hospitality and generosity are Palestinian hallmarks,' says Sam Nassar. 'If we have to feed three, we cook for 20.'"...
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I really want to know. As most of you probably know, mine is pie. But I recognize that others may feel differently. In a nod to my friends at Eater, I am establishing a morning line on which food will be voted ELE readers' favorite: Pie: 2-1 Stuffing: 3-1 Mashed Potatoes: 3-1 Turkey and Gravy: 5-1 Cranberry Sauce: 8-1 Sweet Potatoes: 10-1 Green Vegetables: 500-1 So vote for one of the following: Turkey and Gravy: Stuffing: Stuffing runs a close second to pie for me. What's not to like about stuffing? What other food can so easily contain bread, butter, and sausage in every bite? Cranberry Sauce or Cranberry Conserve to fancy-pants Foodies Sweet Potatoes: I make mine with maple...
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