Have you heard words like ‘fufú’ or ‘mofongo’? Want to learn more about them. They lead to delicious things! Here is my WLRN radio show on the subject….
A Word on Food™
A Word On Food™ is my NPR Radio show that airs on the local radio station WLRN every Saturday morning. The shows also lives on the WLRN website. They are my way of sharing both a food word and also some history, cooking, memories and a way I look at … and taste the world around us.
Category: A Word on Food™
Soccarat
Those heavenly crispy edges on the base of risottos and paellas …. There’s a name for that….
Honduran Tapado
A person … whom I can’t recall … informed me of the place we’d come to. I often find torn pieces of paper from dinner check presenters or ripped out of my Moleskin notebooks. On one I had written the address of a Honduran restaurant that I needed to try. I might…
Cheese Enchiladas
Do you know precisely and with no margin of error a dish can be declared … bullet proof? Let me tell you my opinion. It is when you can have it on an airplane and it is not … bad! Janet and I were flying to Dallas recently to do a dinner…
Hoe Cakes
The great writer on our Southern Foodways John T. Edge has morphed in his world view. He has a book titled, “The Potlikker Papers” and in it he writes, “When I first began thinking and writing about the South, I focused on continuities. Traveling the Pee Dee of South Carolina, I looked…
Amuse Bouche
The Holidays are all around us now. Both the recently passed and those still yet to come…..The spirit of giving is in the air. That is what makes the season we are in so incredible, so marvelous and so distinct from the rest of the year. Whatever faith you have in this…
Peter Luger’s Steak House
After two days of crawling in the tight, labyrinthine, sun-blocked streets of Manhattan it was a release to take a cab across the Brooklyn Bridge in spite of a steady early afternoon drizzle. We were heading to what some say is the greatest steak house in America, Peter Luger’s. As we rode…
Chimichangas
When I was growing up in Illinois about an eonago we began to have an influx of people from Mexicomove into our small community. I actually grew up in a place of only 250 residents that sat betweentwo small towns. One was Mundelein and the other Diamond Lake. We were in West…
Chicken and Waffles
With my first paycheck from ‘The Midget’ …to clarify… it was a bar and restaurant in Key West I worked in … I sent for my then … girlfriend, Janet, who arrived a few days later on a Greyhound bus from Ft. Lauderdale where she’d been working as a maid in a…
Cookbooks
A writer named Brook Larsen recently wrote in an online magazine named ‘Culture Trip’, “The Japanese and English borrow words from each other all the time. There is a whole subset of the Japanese language known as gai-rai-go (loan words), many of which come from English, including tabako (tobacco) for cigarettes and…