The colder it gets, the better fresh pineapple looks to me. Puts me in mind of the sunny tropics, I suppose. The pineapple has been called the king of fruits and the queen of fruits because, says Père du Tertre, it wears a crown. If…
Category: Food
Here are some more pictures from our foray to Jeffersonville, Indiana. We were headed to Schimpff’s. That Coca-Cola sign was the glow of the Holy Grail. IT WAS CLOSED! So we wandered disconsolately onward and came to O’Shea’s. But the door didn’t say O’Shea’s. That’s…
If you’re from the American Midwest, you know what I’m talkin’ about: an item essential to the USA’s mid-twentieth-century cooking: fluorescent orange process cheese food. Yes, Velveeta! This gummy block of unlikely color was introduced in America and Canada in 1928. It has the…