Food, of course, is part of our lives from the time of conception. It’s part of our characters’ lives, too. In a cozy, recipes are often included, a precedent set by (I think) Virginia Rich. Rex Stout used food to characterize detective Nero Wolfe, a…
Oh, man, I can do without the heat and the humidity, but I love summer. Because fresh food! For instance, this salad. Two kinds of fresh tomato, pan-crisped sage leaves, topped with a glop of blue cheese dressing. It doesn’t look slurpy now, but it…
I get this — or something vaguely like this — at Beef O’Brady’s. There, it’s called a Big Catch Salad. There, it’s an actual salad with a BIG chunk o’ fish on top, garnished with rings of red onion and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese,…
