Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook
Ishmael and Queequeg arrive on Nantucket Island… They make their way to the Try Pots restaurant, where the proprietor’s wife, Mrs. Hussey, seats them at a table…then asks them but a single question: “Clam or Cod?”
Ishmael is perplexed…
Only when Ishmael detects “a warm savory steam from the kitchen...
One entree I enjoy ordering at Mexican restaurants is the Seafood Enchiladas. Usually a combination of shrimp, scallops, crab, octopus and/or squid with mild seasonings, rolled in a flour tortilla and baked in a creamy tomato sauce; it’s just lusciously delicious. However, we don’t always have the...
“Ding Dong Bell,
Pussy’s in the well.
Who put her in?
Little Johnny Flynn.
Who pulled her out?
Little Tommy Stout.
What a naughty boy was that,
To soak a Pussy cat,
Who never did him any harm,
But scared all the mice in the farmer’s barn.”
While the original version of this rhyme is from John Lant...
How in the world did I miss writing this? There I was, at home, making pizza dough to create a Sicilian pie for dinner. Ah yes, that is correct, pizza is called “pie” whether it is baked round or rectangular.
Anyway, too lazy to dig out the huge binder that acts as my personal cookbook, I looked...
Sometimes, no matter how you try and repress childhood memories, well the bad ones at least, they still come back to haunt and intimidate you.
The good memories I have, which are few and far between, seem to mostly center around food.
One of these was the first time my mother made Rice Krispies...
Warning, I am about to confuse you with the following information about National Peach Month.
In March 1982, President Ronald Reagan pushed forward Proclamation 4947 to have July proclaimed as National Peach Month.
Congress approved, and President Reagan signed, the proclamation on June 15th....
“This business is a blessing as, it not only kept the family together, but helped us get closer. Not only that, we became closer to the residents, and feel welcomed by, and part of, the community.” – Patrick and Shylowe Chadd, owners of The Over Bite.
July 15, 2026 was the one-year anniversary for...
“I got faith (Faith) in you, baby.
I got faith (Oh) in you now.
And you've been such a, such a good friend to me (Me).
Know that I love you somehow (Love you somehow).
I met you, hallelujah, I got faith (Faith).”
“Faith” by Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande; sung at the end of “Sing” and the squid...
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!”
This phrase is a Yiddish-American hopscotch chant from Penny Marshall’s childhood; famously used in the opening credits of the 1970s TV sitcom “Laverne & Shirley”. It translates to:
Schlemiel: An awkward, clumsy, or...
I’m done hidin’, now I’m shinin’.
Like I’m born to be.
We dreaming hard, we came so far,
Now I believe.
We’re going up, up, up, it’s our moment.
You know together we’re glowing.
Gonna be, gonna be golden.
– “Golen”, sung by Huntrix in K-Pop Demon Hunters.
…and golden they are, that is owners, Waen...
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