November 2009 Archive

November 20, 2009

[Edible Idiom] Ne pas mâcher ses mots

Chewing giraffe provided by Wildlife 2008. This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of idioms featured so far. This week's idiom is, "Ne pas mâcher ses mots." Literally translated as, "Not chewing one's words," it means expressing one's opinion plainly and bluntly, with no concern for how it'...

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November 15, 2009

Simple Tahini Sauce

Ever since I received an electric steamer for my birthday last summer, I have been steaming vegetables with abandon. Before that, I used a set of those bamboo baskets that you nest in a wok if you have one (I don't) or place on a saucepan that's never quite the correct size for optimal steam circulation. That thing sputtered and leaked and drove...

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November 10, 2009

Chocolate Marble Cake

[Cake marbré au chocolat] I grew up eating a store-bought chocolate marble cake called Savane. Created in the sixties by a French manufacturer that was acquired by an American company shortly thereafter, it came as a whole loaf cake in an ocher and brown box. The bottom of the loaf was wrapped in a paper liner that you peeled off as you sliced y...

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November 4, 2009

Sourdough Bagels

When Maxence and I were in San Francisco late last summer, we had bagels for breakfast every single day. There were a couple of bagel shops not far from where we were staying, so we alternated between the two, and on those mornings that we went for a run through the Golden Gate Park, bagels awaited at a busy coffee shop by the ocean. I like mine...

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November 2, 2009

November 2009 Desktop Calendar

At the beginning of every month in 2009, I am offering C&Z readers a new desktop calendar, i.e. a wallpaper to apply on the desktop of your computer, with a food-related picture and a calendar of the current month. Our desktop calendar for November is a picture of what I think of as a Parisian tartine, an open-face sandwich made on naturally lea...

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