As I once learned from a fellow homebrewer, every good homebrewing session involves cheese. Cheese, and some crackers or bread, and something savory like summer sausage or salami. Snacking during the multi-hour homebrew process is almost as enjoyable as throwing hops into a boiling pot of wort.
Yesterday’s homebrew session followed an earlier-in-the-week stop at Taste [...]
Pollan Manifesto and Stilton Dreams
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan’s fifth tome, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, is on shelves now.
Excerpts:
Introduction (pdf) as posted on Michael Pollan’s website
First chapter as posted in the New York Times
Book Reviews:
LA Times
NY Times
Slate
Author Interviews:
NPR
In Defense of Food
So I’m sitting down to a lunch of leftover hoppin’ john and collard greens (best new years day tradition ever) when I decide to catch up on some blogging from the past week. Over at the Slow Food Blog, I find some exciting news: Michael Pollan has a new book out. Being halfway through the [...]