You thought you could finish all your shopping by Dec. 25, which, incidentally, is less than one week away? Hah! And no time to shop this week? Fret not. You can still have a copy of Watching What We Eat delivered to you or the cheerfully decorated doorstep of your loved one with time to spare.
Have a happy holiday season!
Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog and – I presume? – for buying or borrowing and reading Watching What We Eat. You can see that I have not been updating in a while, but I love the design of this blog so much (courtesy of the talented Brett Heckman) that I just can’t let it go. And just maybe I’ll have something to post every now and again. So keep visiting! Because I still like to look at the Google Analytics reports to see from whence my visitors cometh – all over the world, it turns out. Since April 2009 the top ten locations (excluding North America) were the UK, Germany, Australia, France, Philippines, Italy, Spain, India, Netherlands and Poland.
Ciao! Eet smakelijk!
The cacio e pepe I am about to eat in Rome
Dear Suffolk County people,
I will be talking about Watching What We Eat at the Sachem Public Library* on Monday, March 14 at 7pm. It would be lovely to see you there!
Yours truly,
Kathleen
* which began as an 18-book women’s suffrage collection in 1914 and is now one of the largest school district libraries in New York State
That’s the title of the panel that I’ll be moderating next. Sat., 2/18, as part of the IACP regional conference. Panelists will be Allen Salkin, Troy Patterson, Sara Moulton, Peter Naccarato and Katie LeBesco. It’s not too late to register. The conference itself is 2 days long and boasts a fantastic line-up of interesting topics and people. Take a look and register at the Culinary Trust.
One of my favorite sources for WWWE was a book I found in NYU’s Fales Collection – Cooking with the Experts by William Irving Kaufman. Published in 1955, it’s a true blue slice of an era, full of local TV cooking show recipes like fried rabbit, stuffed Colorado trout, cherry and almond gelatin salad and true Hoosier corn bread. In the back of the book are bios and photos of a slew of regional hosts like Betty Adams’ of “Sugar ‘N Spice” in Providence, Irene Lindgren from “Through the Kitchen Window” out of Indianapolis, and from my hometown of Rochester, NY, Trudy McNall from “Home Cooking.” Once legion, this local TV staple as gone the way of liver rolls in sour cream (p. 89).
I bought my own copy of Kaufman at an auction, the one known as eBay. Sherry Howard found hers at a regular auction and saw its gem-like qualities, too. She gives it (and WWWE) props on her Auction Finds blog. If you’re curious, you can get your own copy, too, dirt cheap.
Here’s a meager look inside:
