Pickle Making, the Making of Pickles

It seems like everyone is canning these days. It’s cool, it’s hip.  Now, I’ve never made jelly,* or saved summer vegetables, but I do make pickles… not from cucumbers however, but from these guys:

It turns out that across the Americas, there’s this funny vegetable growing that kind of looks like a pear with a scary […]

Betty Crocker’s Saving Grace

The story I know about American cooking comes from Julia Child’s retrospective introduction to the 40th Anniversary edition of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Large, largely unseasoned, platters of beef, next to sculpted marshmallow salad in aspic. Casseroles that called for a potato chip topping. Well, these last two images rightly induce horror in […]