Land speed record

Short of toast, you'll not find a faster meal than this latest entry in my informal fast pasta series. I guarantee you will be surprised that something that takes so little time could produce such a wonderful depth of flavour.

Wing ding

As D.'s academic career amps up, she's getting more opportunities to travel to conferences and other academic-y things that academics do. In 2011, she's already been to conferences in three different cities, which to my second-tier-college-diploma-toting eye seems like a sure sign that she's doing something right in her chosen field. Great for her, but I fear I'm going to have to get used to cooking for one a little more often.

The Hunger

"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one." — M.F.K. Fisher (The Art of Eating)

One of the tragedies of the North American way of eating is the diminishment of the meal as a shared ritual. As countless generations around the world and all through history attest, there’s no better place for building the bonds of family and friendship than around the supper table.