Star anise floats in the night-sea of meat bone tea,
backed by the cloud-flower shapes of lingusticum.

S. Qiouyi Lu's intensely synesthetic and richly pictorial poem "肉骨茶 (Meat Bone Tea)" seems to be a perfect bit of textual Food Porn for the onset of autumn, and soup weather; they've kindly granted permission to link to their full text on ( Read more... )

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One person's exotic foreign delicacy is someone else's home cooking (and vice versa); food blogger Kitchen Butterfly's recipe for a favorite comfort soup from her native Nigeria serves as both a precise tutorial for people in the former camp and an expatriate's paean to the Taste of Home for those in the latter.

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( In which Cormac MacConnell lavishes the sort of flowery rhapsodic praise upon Golden Wonder Spuds that a romance novelist reserves for the heroine's charms. )

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I have been craving short ribs, and I found a recipe for them today, teamed with thyme infused polenta, in Martha Stewart's new Food magazine.

And because I had this lazy gray day off, I was able to cook them low and slow--just like they like.

Sorry--the recipe does have more than ten ingredients ;-), but most of the stuff you'll need is probably ( Read more... )

I saw Tyler Florence make this on television this morning, and I have to say that the whole time I was watching, it was all I could do to keep from drooling in my lap.

This is one of my favorite southern recipes, because it's so simple, and yet the flavors are so incredibly BIG, and complex, and deep, and the mouthfeel is pure comfort. PURE ( Read more... )

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Despite the fact it's nearly midsummer, the weather here in Birmingham has been appalling, and my usual summer fare of fish, salad and fruit has begun to pall ( Read more... )

Hi pornistas, this is a sad post I'm afraid. A good friend's brother died last week and she's back at school now, trying to graduate college on schedule. I don't think she's doing well on the food front...she mentioned that she ate cookies for dinner last night because there wasn't anything else in the kitchen. It makes me sad that her house isn't ( Read more... )