Sugar Papa
On a recent exploratory foray through Soho, we stumbled on the candy store Papabubble. Their shtick—demonstrating candy-making in an exquisitely minimalist shop—might be a euro-touristy gimmick, but we still swooned for the beakers, sugar, and stainless steel. A lass kneaded a hot log of sugar back and forth to cool it and snipped its tail [...]
The Hungry Hunter
The Hungry Scientist packed up the labs and headed into the woods north of Canada for our first hunting excursion. New Brunswick on the Cains river where Atlantic salmon spawn and wild birds nest.
Backwoods cooking is always fun and we have had an interest in it since learning the knack from beloved Keewaydin Camp days. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River [...]
Pig Candy
Jennifer 8. Lee’s blog in today’s Times about Roni-Sue’s bacon-covered chocolate reminded us of one of our beloved long-lost recipes from the book. (Backstory: most of the straightforward “food” recipes had to be cut because of—ahem—marketing concerns.) With our cromagnon love of combinations of sugar and salt, we originally included a simple but orgasmic treat of [...]
