We are excited to feature our first guest contributor: Crystal! We hope to see her more often here – she’s quite an accomplished photographer and has a strange obsession for bread and bakeries and all the mysteries that emerge from the hours before the sun breaks for a new day…or year. Happy New Year! – [...]
Following in the footsteps of my fellow Zomppa ladies, Belinda and Elyssa, who blogged about bread, I thought I would add my little musings on my bread encounters whilst here in Ireland. I am currently in Northern Ireland visiting my parents. I actually spent my teenage years here, and have to admit that [...]
What do an Egyptian pharaoh and the Hogan Family have to do with food? In fact, what do they have do with each other?
Rameses is in the Ten Commandments with Rameses every Easter, and Easter is time for eggs and large family brunches….
Sandy Duncan was in The Hogan Family, the 80s family sitcom, but I [...]
Call me mistrustful, but there is something so comforting about knowing exactly what you’re eating. Knowing that the ruby red plum you’re about to sink your teeth into was able to grow on a tree until it was ready to be plucked and taken to the market. Knowing that the bread that you feed your [...]
Pan, pao, bao, pav…whether Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, India, the word for bread seems similar across cultures and languages. Most cultures have some sort of bread – flatbreads, buns, baguettes – and breaking bread is not an unfamiliar term. You eat together, you are no longer strangers.
Indian breads are numerous and they also vary by [...]
