Cursive Mechanics » spices http://cursivemechanics.ca Food and Other Good Stuff Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:07:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 A Short History of Chowder http://cursivemechanics.ca/2009/02/16/a-short-history-of-chowder/ http://cursivemechanics.ca/2009/02/16/a-short-history-of-chowder/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:19:53 +0000 Jodi http://cursivemechanics.ca/?p=941

Curried chicken chowder

Chowder. It’s not quite soup and not quite stew. So what is it?

Enter the Oxford Companion to Food, which tells me that in fact, chowder is thought to be named after the…

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Gingerbread cupcakes with lemon cream-cheese frosting

Today’s my birthday, and I’m turning thirty-six. I’m now closer to being forty than I am to being thirty. How did that happen?

Cake is good on birthdays, and I plan to…

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Saffron risotto with sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, and spinach

A dearth of actual sunlight?

It’s the only plausible explanation I have for the sudden and intense fixation with saffron that overtook my otherwise ordinary Tuesday last week. Everything I…

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