A food blog needs a theme and two other things

[oakfarm]

I can post a new post about a book like I did with the bike book. Joseph Wechsberg Blue trout and black truffles and with the telling subtitle The  Peregrinations of an Epicure.

1. Joseph Wechsberg wrote that his favorite dish was cottage cheese dumplings. I googled for a receipt on cottage cheese dumplings. And here we have a good way of using the internet. Namely find recept on dishes you read about in books. I find a receipt on Hungarian cottage cheese dumplings. Then the thought that if I had a food blog it should be about cooking all receipt from Joseph Wechsberg book. Then I remembered many dishes mentioned had foie gras and truffle in them.

2. I wonder what an epicure really is? Consuming lots of wine, tobacco, food ... are a diseases nowadays. Plus they all gives you cancer. I mentioned I had read Remarque biographies. One biography mentioned that alcohol and women was two of Remarques “passions”. Another biography, written like thirty year later, said that Remarque was an alcoholic and had a compulsory sex life. You see what I am saying. The difference in wording, the question if it is healthy to be a epucure.

3. My favorite part of the book however was when Joseph visit a truffle producing area in France and one guy there says it’s great that Americans were starting to get interested in good food. See, Joseph was born in today's Czech republic, that then was a part of Austria-Hungary. Then he was educated in Vienna and Paris and only come to the US in 1940 as an asylum seeker. He was Jewish. A man with a very European background, who speaks better French and German than English, gets called American. It says something.

My next book post will be about a Gandhi biography.

Comments

[stormsong]

*recipe

(that is how you spell that word)

I think professional wine-tasters are supposed to spit after tasting, but I'm not sure how many of them actually do.

[wantedonvoyage]

Yes but if you go to very sophisticated restaurants the portions are very small. I think you can appreciate really good food by learning about it, taking small portions and savoring it.

In America we have somehow linked giant portions in a restaurant to getting a good value... it is normal to get an entree that you could stretch into two or three meals, but if you don't pay attention you can end up eating it all. I have this bad habit because I eat too fast, so by the time I realize I am full, I've already eaten too much. Something I'm trying to be more conscious of and overcome.

[oakfarm]

Thanks for the correction. One time when I reread my entries I saw I had written violet when I meant violent. ☺ No one corrected me that time.