Posts Tagged "Edibles"

  • Regency Eats: The Top Chef Edition

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    Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I am obsessed with “Top Chef: All Stars”. I love the chefs, I love the challenges, I love Anthony Bourdain…I even love Padma, even though I think she’s a thoroughly unlikely food show host.

    As far as I know, the Regency did not have anything like “Top Chef” (they were rather short on televisions, after all). But, they did have one of the very first celebrity chefs – Marie-Antoine Carême. According to Venetia Murray’s book “High Society”, Carême’s father was a stonemason with fifteen other children; and so, when Carême was eleven, his father took him to Paris, “fed him supper in a tavern and abandoned him in the street.” Awfully nice of dear old dad to give him supper first, right?

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    Posted on 16 February 2011 * Add a Comment
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  • How to Live Like a Romance Heroine: Drink Tea

    On this week’s installment of “How to Live Like a Romance Heroine,” we have a topic very near and dear to my heart – tea!

    A proper English tea in the tearoom at Brighton Pavilion - May 2008

    I love many types of tea, but my go-to drink while writing is strong, hot black tea with milk and sugar. My obsession started young, when I reread The Secret Garden every week for months. In my Iowa youth, the only tea I had was Lipton in a bag, and I compensated by having a sugar:liquid ratio that should have given me far more cavities than I actually suffered. Now, though, I am much more refined (read ‘snobbish’) in my tastes – only loose-leaf will do, and only in a proper mug. Tea is delicate enough that I swear I can taste the paper if it is served in a to-go cup. But where can you find these teas, and how can you make them yourself?

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    Posted on 12 January 2011 * Add a Comment
    Tags: Delicious * Edibles * My Favorite Things * San Francisco *