The Gourmet Corner

On the last night of the cooking class offered by Cornell Hotel School to non-Hotel School students,
with my Argentinian friend and classmate Victoria (winter 1998).

An Alphabet of My Likes and Dislikes

Cookbook Reviews

• Sarah R. Labensky / Alan M. Hause: On Cooking
• Moosewood Collective: Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home – Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day
• Lorenz Books: Around the World Cookbook
• Duncan MacDonald / Robb Sagendorph: Old-Time New England Cookbook
• Rex Stout, et al.: The Nero Wolfe Cookbook

Other Food-Related Book Reviews

• Felines at War, or: Celebrity Death Match Review Elimination Tournament Review: Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (16) vs. War and Peace (17)
• Tania (Karen) Blixen: Babette’s Feast
• Robin Whiteman & Rob Talbot: Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden / Robin Whiteman: The Cadfael Companion
• Joanne Fluke / Laura Levine / Leslie Meier: Candy Cane Murder
• Donna Andrews: The Gift of the Magpie … and Yule Candles, Candy, and Other Christmas Cheer
• Amy Pershing: An Eggnog to Die For

Food Shopping Splurges

• Summer Splurges (AKA: Be Good to Yourself)
• Stratford-upon-Avon – Oxford – London: Shakespeare, Hogwarts and Shopping
• Be good to yourself, they said.
• Happy Mother’s Day – with tartufi, Florentine cookies and other goodies from my favorite tea, chocolate, and specialty food store.
• Fancy Food Shopping Splurge; or, the Cats and the Candle
• Festive Tasks: Door 7 – Gifts: including plenty of foodie gifts from “that store” in Frankfurt
• A Spontaneous Splurge

Favorite Stores

Gewürz- und Teehaus Schnorr (Frankfurt, Germany)

(Image sources: here and here)

Fortnum & Mason’s Food Hall (London, UK)

Whittard of Chelsea (UK)

Dinner Is Served!

• Spaghetti Marinara
• Bami Goreng
• Family Christmas Traditions – including Christmas dinner en famille
• Two Favorite Chinese Dishes
• Our Traditional New Year’s Eve Dinner: Wieners & Potato Salad
• Mexican Food: Mini beef tortillas with potato wedges, sour cream, and a salsa & guacamole dip
• Vegetable Dinner
• A Mother’s Day Memory: asparagus, art, and a red rose bouquet.
• Teriyaki Chicken
• Spicy Red Pepper Pesto
• Chicken Tikka Masala
• Latkes: the Chinese Sweet Water Chestnut Version
• Chili con Carne & Fresh Pineapple
• Spices!
• First Day of Carnival in the Rhine Valley: Dinner – potato pancakes, apple sauce, a donut, and “Fassbrause” (alcohol-free lemonade made from beer)
• Red Thai Curry
• Mexican Food: Chili and Cheese Nuggets, and Beef Enchilada
• Festive Tasks: Door 17 – Holiday Food (Tasks 1 – 3)

Tea, Coffee, Dessert, and Treats

• Hygge!
• Tea, Chocolates, and a Book
• Sherry Cream Dessert
• Candlelight Breakfast and a Book
• Vanilla Ice Cream with Flambé Cherries (Cherries Jubilee)
• Poppy Seedcake
• Holiday Treats
• My Wassail Bowl and Favorite Spicy Drink
• Donuts for Hanukkah
• Halloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/14 (Day 14): Halloween Bingo Reading Snacks and Drinks?
• Halloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/14 (Day 14): Halloween Bingo Reading Snacks and Drinks … Part 2: The Snacks
• KitKat Flavors
• Coffee and Pastries
• A Book, a Mug (of Tea), and Chocolate Truffles
• St. Nicholas’ Day Goodies
• A Cup of Christmas Goodies
• Christmas Pudding
• Christmas Tea, a Book, and a Candle
• Festive Tasks: Door 17 – Holiday Food (Tasks 1 – 3)
• Plum Pudding, Bibliomancy, Goblins and Other Charms

Other Food-Related Blog Posts

• Bibliophile Easter Eggs 2015: Books, beauty products, and goodies from Fortnum & Mason’s and Whittard of Chelsea
• 15 authors to read based on your favorite drinks
• Food humor: Your favorite authors, reimagined as breakfast cereal mascots
• Food art: Charles Roux – Fictitious Meals
• The Twelve Tasks of the Festive Season – Task the Second: The Silent Nights; and Task the Third: The Holiday Party
• The Twelve Tasks of the Festive Season – A Visit to the Christmas Market
• The Telegraph: Germany’s 10 best Christmas Markets
• Food humor: Simon’s Cat – Fowl Play
• Eurovision Song Contest 2018 … and comfort food.
• Necessary ingredients for a Stay Inside Festival
• A Summer Saturday Afternoon in “Balconya” …
• Happy Halloween – à la française, with Corsican wine.
• Tea Shelf Organization
• Pumuckl’s Footprints, or, “Do you believe in Santa Claus?”: Is it cherry ice cream … or Quark with cherry compote?
• Christmas Dinner with Mark Twain (the fictitious, all you can eat version.)
• Bookish friends are the best: Thank you so much, BT!! – for my brand new supersized Lord Peter and Harriet mug, that is.
• Cheshire Cat Mug
• Mug Shots: my favorite tea mugs
• Halloween Bingo 2019: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Extra Square – Magical Realism & Darkest London (with Joanne Harris’s Chocolat for the Magical Realism square)
• Creature Comforts: Cats, books tea, treats, music, candles … and comfort socks.
• Hoarding: The Figures – the COVID epidemic strikes, and stores are out of everyday food items.
• Staying Zen in Stressful Times: with books, music, my cats, tea and chocolate!
• Festive Tasks: Door 1, Task 1 – Of Chocolate, Cathedral Architecture, and Veerry Old Bones (chocolate courtesy of the Cologne Chocolate Museum)
• A Saturday Afternoon in November – with flowers, candles, cheesecake and tea.
• Personal Holiday Traditions: including all of the above-pictured gingerbread, Stollen, Christmas cookies, etc.!
• Christmas Goodies: including a beautiful new set of mug rugs, tea, truffle oil and salt, red wine salt, and liquorice cordial

(Except as otherwise noted, all images in this post mine.)