Category Archives: Food

Through a convoluted series of events too complex and mundane to warrant discussion here, I was told that there is a rather substantial Serbian community in and around Hot Springs, Arkansas. Moreover, my source tells me the community has access to … Continue reading →

I could wait no longer. With the talk of breakfast in my earlier post, my hunger got the best of me. So I peeled a hard-boiled egg, sliced a tomato, shaved a little habanero pepper, snagged a few leaves of cilantro, and finished … Continue reading →

Today, I willingly go off the South Beach diet at lunch time. The menu for today at the Pulaski Technical College Culinary Arts program Food Production IV lunch consists of: Butternut Squash soup Mussels Mouclade and Spinach Mousse Beef Wellington Crème … Continue reading →

A snack shouldn’t be so damn expensive. But sometimes you just have to throw caution to the wind and spend, spend, spend. Which is what I did. And this morning, I am happier for it. I could have enjoyed a … Continue reading →

This morning I prepared a special international breakfast, salt fish and ackee, regarded (according to what I read) as one of Jamaica’s national dishes, one frequently served at breakfast. Salt fish is salt-dried cod. Ackee is a fruit native to … Continue reading →

My book about international breakfasts is underway, and has been for quite a while. Lately, I’ve been giving it a bit more attention, attention it deserves. The photo to the left is evidence of my attention. I recently stumbled across … Continue reading →

Okay. They’re not secrets. For for the most part, they are new, at least to me. The program for yesterday’s Men’s Club Luncheon consisted of a Great Courses instructional video prepared in partnership with the Culinary Institute of America. The presenter, … Continue reading →

We returned last night to Pulaski Tech’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute for a fine dinner. The draw, for my wife, was the menu; it included sweetbreads as the main course. Alas, there were no sweetbreads served last night, … Continue reading →

I am smoking a brisket this morning—and for the rest of the day—in anticipation that I will enjoy a flavor late this evening that I have not tasted since I moved to Arkansas. Only a relatively few places in the world … Continue reading →

Some time ago, I received a text message from a friend who explained that she had made a Mexican-English fusion breakfast. Knowing how I enjoy breakfast, she thought I might like to know what she had done. She sliced and … Continue reading →

Why is it that we have a limited palette when it comes to breakfast? I mentioned something I’d find interesting for breakfast in today’s Ruminations, but I think I’m in the minority in finding “routine” breakfasts boring.  Despite my distaste … Continue reading →

A few years ago, I asked the doctor who was then my cardiologist to comment on peri-peri sauce.  The cardiologist, you see, was from South Africa. I had just had my first taste of peri-peri sauce, purchased from a British … Continue reading →