It’s a big topic, too much for a post. So I will focus on some aspects that might not be widely known. Even so, this is a long post that only touches briefly on the issues. Food safety rules in privileged western countries like mine do a good job in limiting foodborne disease. The rules,
I thought I would document a dinner I did just recently for good friends. There were seven courses, and it had a light summer theme. It was meant to comprise interpretations on Italian, until a considerably more scholarly guest than I reminded me (tactfully) that gazpacho was Spanish. Oh dear. Fortunately, I’m fallible; otherwise, I
The usual way to peel a tomato is slitting the base, dunking it in boiling water and then into an ice-bath. This is fine. If the tomato flesh is to be used in saucing, in other words if the integrity of the flesh doesn’t matter, then a more unusual, but neat and effective method, is