Truffled Turkey

Thanksgiving food writing is full of recipes and histories of the dishes that we find on the American table, like Continue reading →

The American

The very first place in Paris that Christopher Newman, the tourist-hero of Henry James’s 1876-7 novel The American, visits when Continue reading →

Truffles and Haschich

The recipe for haschich fudge that makes Alice B. Toklas’s 1954 cook book notorious may, at first glance, appear out Continue reading →