Yearly Archives: 2007

 

Auto-indoctrination at the feet of Petrini

Jan 17

Monday was our first face to face meeting with Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, and therefore our patron saint, since the University of Gastronomic Science fell out of the folds of the cloak of the Slow Food movement in … Continue reading →

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What a week: oil, food culture, slaughterhouses, sensory analysis – and a party

Jan 16

Lost some time last week to the flu, but it was a well parenthesised week nonetheless. We returned to classes on Monday with a lecture on olive oil history by our very own Allen J Grieco. It was an interesting … Continue reading →

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How I wish I were in England now

Jan 14

…for then I could rush out to the newsagent and buy a copy of the Independent on Sunday, and read Nancy’s poem which appears in its pages today. Since I am not and I cannot, instead I will browse the … Continue reading →

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In which I revisit a couple of cooking sites

Jan 11

I was feeling so much better this evening, and checking a few food/recipe sites, testing my tolerance for pictures of food (still fairly low – glad that so far you don’t get aromas through the laptop) and I noticed a … Continue reading →

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Sick of being sick, food in Britain, and copyrighting recipes

Jan 10

I have been languishing in my sickbed for two solid days, mostly too ill for meditation, although I have reached the following conclusion: surely the ailment that delivers the hardest blow to the solar plexis of the student of food … Continue reading →

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