After reading Robert Harris’s entertaining novel IMPERIUM about the Roman orator, essayist and politician Cicero, and his parlous ascendency to the position of consul in ancient Rome I assumed I’d gotten most of the salient details of his life. I was wrong. Pull up a plate of Spicy Chickpea Cakes with Romesco Sauce–it’s an interesting …
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The horror, the horror… Celery Root Soup with Gorgonzola and Apple
How can something that tastes so good look sooooo creepy? Even the cozy daylight-balanced produce-aisle lighting of Whole Foods can’t dispel the sense that something wicked this way comes whenever I get to the celery root bin. Hieronymus Bosch, H.P. Lovecraft and Arcimboldo rolled into one beat-with-the-heebie-jeebie stick vegetable. You know that scene in one …
The Garum Factory 