The First Thanksgiving
Ever wonder what the pilgrims and Indians actually ate at that fabled first Thanksgiving? Queens-based historic gastronomist and blogger Sarah Lohman can probably tell you. Lohman’s an old-timey-food-re-enactor who takes recipes from the past and recreates them to “95 percent authenticity.” She mostly does American food from the 18th and 19th centuries (see the 1750s “Chocolet puffs”), but she’ll venture into different eras as well—try her 1930s French Protestant “Huguenot Torte” (recipe below).
Lohman’s blog, Four Pounds Flour, is full of recipes, photos, videos, stories and other historically relevant gastronomical information. In a recent short documentary, the gastorian, we’ll call her, divulges her rigorous criteria for choosing a culinary re-creation: “I just see something that I think might taste good, and then I make it.” Read the rest of this entry »
Cathy Erway. Photo by Amber Marlow Blatt
Brooklyn may be on the verge of its annual 10-day restaurant fest/dining-out extravaganza, but not eating out is a pretty big part of the borough’s foodie ethos too–Crown Heights food blogger Cathy Erway made her name from it. In September 2006, Erway, up to then a frequent restaurant-goer, became fed up with the expense of restaurant dinners and the sameness of the weekday, store-bought sandwiches. So she gave them up: Anything that went into her mouth, Erway was going to make herself.
And so was born Not Eating Out in New York, a popular blog. Then came a radio show on “food, dating and everything in-between,” and now a memoir about her two-year experiment. (She returned to the world of restaurants in 2008, but not like before). We asked Cathy, 28, what we should make for dinner tonight with only $5, and a few other questions. Read the rest of this entry »
The First Thanksgiving
Ever wonder what the pilgrims and Indians actually ate at that fabled first Thanksgiving? Queens-based historic gastronomist and blogger Sarah Lohman can probably tell you. Lohman’s an old-timey-food-re-enactor who takes recipes from the past and recreates them to “95 percent authenticity.” She mostly does American food from the 18th and 19th centuries (see the 1750s “Chocolet puffs”), but she’ll venture into different eras as well—try her 1930s French Protestant “Huguenot Torte” (recipe below).
Lohman’s blog, Four Pounds Flour, is full of recipes, photos, videos, stories and other historically relevant gastronomical information. In a recent short documentary, the gastorian, we’ll call her, divulges her rigorous criteria for choosing a culinary re-creation: “I just see something that I think might taste good, and then I make it.” Read the rest of this entry »
