Filed under: Wine, Raves & Reviews, New Products, Dining at Our Desks This could be dangerous. Most people of legal drinking age have at some point mastered the necessary spatial relation between wine and standard glass to allow themselves an enjoyable portion while not getting totally sloppy af...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Southern States, America, Comfort Food, Celebrations, Holidays, New Year's, Guilty Pleasures, Winter, Festive Family Feasts Happy New Year, all! Hope everyone had a warm, festive Eve and is relatively headache-free and rested post-revelry. Now, there are as many ways to p...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Food Oddities, Southern States, America, Retro cookery Perhaps this is just indicative of the sort of folks with whom I keep company, but I've known at least half a dozen people who've used a brain can as comedic decor, and it's certainly been the butt of jokes around the...

Filed under: Whisky, Dessert, Chocolate, Recipes, Pork, Baking, Comfort Food, Guilty Pleasures Sure, many folks go to an Alice B. Toklas place when creative brownie making is mentioned, but for a goody two-shoes like me (with a cop pal as my afternoon's company to boot!), there's much swoony satisfa...

Filed under: Parties, Hors D'oeuvres, Condiments, Retro cookery, Festive Family Feasts Scanned from Time to Entertain by Charlotte Turgeon (1954) Fifty-four years after this printing, I'm hard-pressed to argue with Ms Turgeon on the import of having a few staple schmancy things tucked around the hou...