I’ve been thinking about the redesign of EuropeanCuisines.com for a while now: while there’s a lot of data there, the site’s started to seem very static in terms of what other food sites have to offer. So we’re starting to make some changes.

We’ve started a new version of the site based on the open-source content […]

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A word of explanation before we go on. This is not an apple pie as such (the techniques are a lot different though the flavorings are similar). This is a home version of apfelwähe, which is a subset of the larger set of wähen or tarts in general. (I’m using the Swiss name, which is […]

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It’s about to start happening — that most gloriously seasonal of desserts. The tree in the paddock is so loaded down with Bramleys, the branches are bending halfway to the ground. Gotta do something about that while other work is going on.
The tart dough comes first. The basic recipe is Swiss: they do the best […]

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The branch of Domino’s Pizza in Tallaght, Co. Dublin, sells more pizzas than any other Domino’s branch on Earth.
(And this in a city which contains both the Gotham Cafe and its sibling spot Independent Pizza, joint homes to the best thin-crust pizza in these two islands? Feh.)
(It’s late, and strange quotes drift up from […]

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Took them long enough. (eyeroll)
Of course, the real joke is that the fries are actually Belgian in origin. (The WWI US “doughboys” who discovered them had simply wound up in a French-speaking part of Belgium.) The best evidence of this provenance — not concrete, granted: the dish is too old for that — can be […]

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(Devised for Christmas/Solstice dinner 2001, after thinking about the famous “Black Turkey Recipe” and deciding it was too much trouble. Might as well put it up here so I can find it again this year…)
Necessary equipment:

1 hair dryer
1 large stockpot or similar, 10 liters or 10 quarts or better (and here, bigger is definitely better)
At […]

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For those of you who may be interested:
The Irish recipe pages at our European Cuisines website are constantly getting search-engine hits from people asking “What do Irish people eat?”. With that in mind, we’ve put a new page up that talks about the subject — in very broad strokes — and links to a Flickr […]

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It’s not that I haven’t been annoyed enough by events in the Middle East these past couple weeks. But now it turns out that, as if it all wasn’t bad enough to begin with, someone I really like (regardless of never having met him) is stuck in the middle of it.
“we are currently shooting an […]

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Stephanie Jaworski’s venerable JoyOfCakes.com has been beautifully redesigned. I wandered over there this morning and instantly started drooling.
(sigh) Duane’s Twelfth Law: You will always come across a particularly scrumptious-looking food site at the moment when you were just getting into the business of dumping a few pounds. Feh…
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(When I did my internet order last night, I thought I ordered two rainbow trout from the folks at Tesco; however, they sent me two kilograms of them. Probably my mistake. So six of them go in the freezer, and the last one gets held out to go on the BBQ. Goodman and Pip […]

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It’s 23 Centigrade outside OOA HQ in beautiful County Wicklow. (That’s about 73 Fahrenheit for those of you who aren’t up to doing the conversion right this moment.) The sun is shining brilliantly. The hawthorn is in bloom. The cats are lying around on the gravel complaining (both verbally and nonverbally) about the heat. […]

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The Periodic Table of Food.

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