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Culinary Muddles at UNESCO: Italian Cuisine as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Does Italian cuisine exist? Not according to Alberto Grandi, daring food historian and professor of economic history at the University of Parma. With much dedication, he has focused on myth demolition in the business, spraying traditional culinary targets with such works as Denominazione di Origine Inventata (Invented Designation of Origin: The Lies of Marketing on […]
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The Brooklyn Luncheonette
Back in my Brooklyn NYC of the 50s and 60s we used to call the neighborhood luncheonette ‘The Candy Store’. In my Ave U neighborhood we had at least one such store every few short blocks. The one I will focus on was Moe’s Luncheonette on Ave U between East 24th St and Bedford Ave. […]
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Thieves in the Kitchen: The Stealing of Recipes
Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved. Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy. Her accusation: the apparent copying of recipes for caramel slice and baklava from Maehashi’s RecipeTin Eats website, released in Bellamy’s Bake with Brooki, published in October last year. “Profiting from plagiarised recipes is unethical,” she […]
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Dumpling Wars
The Ukrainian blonde had the smell of trouble. She had perched herself, along with her mute friend, in a restaurant across from the famed South Melbourne Market. On arriving at the modish, glorious bit of real estate known as Tipsy Village, a Polish establishment famed for accented French cuisine, she shrieked: “Why do you have […]
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