Next unto sallat she shall deliver forth all her fricassees…
December 9, 2004
This leafy green quote comes from Gervase Markham’s The English Housewife written in 1615 in a treatise about salads. These words are instructions describing the placement of dishes and the order of courses, starting with light leafy green salads and moving through salads with boiled and pickled vegetables. I have gleaned this tidbit from Cathy K. Kaufman’s article on 17th century salads on the Culinary Historians of New York website.
Take the buds of al kind of good Hearbes and a hanfull of French capers, seven or eight Dates cut in long slices, a hanfull of Raisins of the Sun,…
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Joe Colombo is dead as a doornail
December 1, 2004
Here is the amazingly efficient Joe Colombo designed mini-kitchen. R.vT. tipped me to him a few days ago as I lamented giving up my superflous spoon collection. As my most informative blog-reader to date, R noted that Joe Colombo designed the Alitalia tableware in 1970.
Apparently the ‘MINI-KITCHEN’ designed in the year of my birth and produced in the year of my brother’s birth contains ‘all the electrical appliances and necessary features one needs to cook for and accommodate six people, in just one-half of a cubic meter’.
Well, both the rice-maker and the staff-mixer are nowhere to be seen and I don’t see where one would stow them in the mini-kitchen, but the MK remains an inspiration. Joe Colombo died on his 41st birthday of heart failure.
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