Most of us who cook know that saffron is one of the rarest and definitely the most expensive seasoning in the world. We also know that the reason saffron is so expensive and rare is that the threads are actually the stigmas of a specific crocus flower, Crocus sativa, grown primarily in the Mediterranean [...]

I think I’ve settled on “Linkapalooza” as a generic name for these posts. Today, it’s food links.

Somewhere recently I read a post on some food blog about how to properly store cheese (though I didn’t save the link), and it kept talking about using “cheese paper” to wrap the leftovers. I had never [...]

So yesterday I went to the newest sandwich shop in Our Fair Town, a newly-opened D’Angelo’s (a regional chain that should be recognizable to anyone from New England), and found myself face-to-face with The Killer Tomatoes. No tomato on your sandwich, pal. Some guy Texas died from a bad tomato, so we’re not [...]

(Anybody got a better term to use than “link dump” for these posts? It just doesn’t have any poetry to it at all)

Here in the Northeastern U.S. we’re having our first heat wave of the summer, and anyone with any common sense at all is grilling outside rather than heating up the kitchen by [...]

For centuries, the pigs of the Perigord region of Southwestern France have been used by the farmers to root out the highly-prized black truffles that bear the region’s name. Perigord truffles are among the most expensive foodstuffs in the world and are doled out in translucent slices or very finely grated on top of [...]

Not quite a year ago came the first news that rising-star chef Grant Achatz was seriously ill. In what can only be called the cruelest irony I have ever heard, it was announced that he had Stage IV cancer of the tongue and might lose his tongue altogether to the only recommended treatment for [...]

Here’s a bunch of food-related links that aren’t necessarily inter-related, but I wanted to share them with you:
Former “America’s Next Top Supermodel” contestant Elyse Sewell went to South Korea lately and tried a dish that contained dog meat (a common ingredient in several Asian cuisines). Guess what? It tasted like dog. (via)
There is [...]