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Ken Albala Rants about Leaving his Cream out in the Kitchen

March 8, 2012

Where would we be without our ever-constant food-scientist-for-the-rest-of-us? Continue reading Ken Albala Rants about Leaving his Cream out in the Kitchen

Albala Rants on Something to do with Vinegar, and He Calls it “Shrub”

February 1, 2012

This morning I was moving some of my vinegar from a big crock into smaller bottles and I thought I’d play around with making shrub. This is a delightfully refreshing, very 18th century drink made of vinegar, sometimes fruit flavored and sugar. You mix it with cold water and drink in the summer. My vinegar is obscenely sour and I noticed Continue reading Albala Rants on Something to do with Vinegar, and He Calls it “Shrub”

The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time

December 29, 2011

By Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger
Illustrations by Marjorie Nafziger
Review by Marty Martindale

This is a wonderful little book which assumes you know a few things about cooking but need a little moral support to make some great old-time stuff.

Albala and Nafziger give you ballpark amounts, so forget tidy little recipe lists. They are happy, however, to tell you “how it’s supposed to look,”  Continue reading The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time

Ken Albala Rants Wistfully on his Homemade Salami

December 6, 2011

”My salami making workshop last night in Lodi was such a delight. Twelve of the loveliest people, yards upon yards of intestines, no equipment at all, Continue reading Ken Albala Rants Wistfully on his Homemade Salami

For some Reason, Ken Albala is not in Rage Mode!

November 9, 2011

We find it amazing that this time Ken isn’t ranting, and he explains it thusly:

“I have had some absolutely unmitigated disasters recently. So to console myself, I hope you will indulge me, by ogling at three ordinary weekday meals I cooked recently. Continue reading For some Reason, Ken Albala is not in Rage Mode!

Albala Rants Again on: Lamb Shanks in Almond Milk

October 24, 2011

Of all odd things, my wife and I came together on a single odd ingredient this past week. You have to understand, she doesn’t eat anything I make on principle. But recently it has gone further: a raw food diet. I’ll eat fish raw, meat, love it. Even human flesh. But vegetables in the juicer? And a never ending string of vegetal mush plates with nuts. They don’t taste bad, but I’d shoot myself in the head before I ate only this. Continue reading Albala Rants Again on: Lamb Shanks in Almond Milk

KEN ALBALA RANTS ON TABBOULEH, (HIS WAY)

September 15, 2011


About 20-something years ago, in a little apartment in the Bronx, I tried out some recipes from the Silver Palate cookbook. Tabbouleh sticks in my mind as especially toothsome. I must have stuck to the recipe at first Continue reading KEN ALBALA RANTS ON TABBOULEH, (HIS WAY)

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