What It Means
Catillation is an obsolete word meaning: to lick one's plate. It has nothing to do with cats, except that they catillate quite a bit.
Category Archives: Food Book Review
Review: Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide, Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras, Workman Publishing, New York, 2021.
Here’s a geographically-ordered romp through the world’s strangest food customs, dishes and ingredients. Continue reading
Review: Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes, by Winifred Bird, illustrated by Paul Poynter.
Quick! What’s the first thing that springs to mind if I ask you what Japan and the Washington, DC area have in common? (Hint: it’s early Spring here.) Why, cherry trees in blossom, you’d answer, and you’d be right! So … Continue reading
From Noma to Noma, The Long Way Around
Review of Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World, by Jeff Gordinier. For anyone wondering if gonzo journalism died with Tom Wolfe, here is a book for you. Imagine a Kool-aid acid trip … Continue reading
It Never Gets Old 3: The Fancy Food Show, 2017 Edition Part 3: Levitation
New this year, the Level Up program presented a selection of exhibits and talks addressing the Future of Food. It was both literally and figuratively elevated – upstairs from the exhibit floor and filled with blue-sky notions. I caught a … Continue reading
Alice, Let’s Write – Review: Coming To My Senses, by Alice Waters
Here is a book written by the mother of the farm-to-table movement in this country, founder of the fount of garden-derived cuisine and high priestess of French-influenced but American-driven gastronomy. A reader would expect it to be overflowing with culinary … Continue reading
Have Another Taste: The 2015 Summer Fancy Food Show Part 2: A Fabulous Party and Other Events
I should start with the formal opening ceremony, even though I was just slightly late, and had to stand behind the big cameras. Never mind, it gave me a chance to take a few of my favorite kind of meta-pictures. … Continue reading
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An Austrian’s Adventures in Midcentury America: My Organic Life by Nora Pouillon, with Laura Fraser
If you could sum up Nora Pouillon in one word, would it be “stubborn?” She is known for her single-minded determination to run her professional and personal life the way she sees fit. How about “obsessed?” everything in her restaurant, … Continue reading
I Eat, Therefore I Speak
Review: The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu, by Dan Jurafsky, Norton, 2014. A book that combines two of my favorite subjects! What could be better? I majored in anthropology in college, where I picked up a smattering … Continue reading
Librarians Have Appetites!
Why would a food writer attend a librarian’s convention? Like everyone else, librarians appreciate cooking and eating, and they buy books on those topics for their libraries. The exhibit hall of the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in … Continue reading