Category Archives: Food and Drink

Nice Holiday Milk Stout and Naughty Egg Nog Ale

Posted on 16th December 2016 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

  I love a good stout.  Hell,I’ll even take a mediocre stout if I’m really desperate.  Because there’s nothing like the full-bodied flavor of a dark beer.  So when Flying Dog Brewery here in Maryland decided to repeat their “Naughty” … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 4th of December: Ursula Le Guin fiction, Ragnarok and beyond, Jack’s favorite reading place, Nordic traditions, chocolate and other matters

Posted on 4th December 2016 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

English autumn mornings are often like mornings nowhere else in the world. The air is cold. The floorboards are cold. It is perhaps this coldness which sharpens the tang of the hot cup of tea. Outside, steps on the gravel … Continue reading →

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Kage Baker on Barm Brack

Posted on 10th October 2016 by Cat Eldridge

Barm Brack is a soul cake — traditional Scots recipe calls for a bean or silver coin or some other token to be baked into it and the person getting the winning slice gets fame or good luck or sacrificed … Continue reading →

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Richard J. King’s Lobster

Posted on 1st October 2016 by Robert

Richard J. King’s Lobster is part of a series on “Animals” from Reaktion Books, and, in spite of what we might expect when dealing with a creature mainly interesting for its gustatory qualities, the culinary history is a minor part … Continue reading →

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Sara Perry’s The Tea Deck 

Posted on 25th September 2016 by Cat Eldridge

Presentation is important. It’s what catches our attention, induces us to pick up something (or someone). It’s the prequel to a relationship. It is a step that can be skipped, but people in the business of selling rarely do. As … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 18th of September: a story from Kage Baker, new music from Bua and Iron Horse, a new novel from Peter Beagle, a new collection from Patricia McKillip, a “cowboy” movie, Welsh sort of trad music, Indonesian sort of trad music, American pop and several other things as well

Posted on 18th September 2016 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, … Continue reading →

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Bill Barich’s A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish Pub

Posted on 17th September 2016 by Diverse Voices

Joseph Thompson penned this review. There’s nothing worse than travelling with a dreamer on a mission to recapture his or her youth. The old fishing holes are puddles, quaint villages become banal suburbs, and magical forests shrink to mundane thickets. … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 11th of September: Chicago’s Lincoln Park Conservatory, an Oysterband retrospective collection, contemporary Estonian music, a Swedish porridge restaurant, a Tam Lin novel, card catalogues and other matters…

Posted on 11th September 2016 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

I can remember the title, author, and location of every book in this library, Matthew. Every book that’s ever been dreamed. Every book that’s ever been imagined. Every book that’s ever been lost. Millions upon millions of them. That’s what … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the 3rd of July: Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, SF from Lavie Tidhar and Warren Ellis, de Lint has a song for a us, a Charles Vess gallery in a book and other goodies as well!

Posted on 3rd July 2016 by Iain Nicholas Mackenzie

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl’s eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves. ― … Continue reading →

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Weston Hingler’s Secrets of the Tsil Café

Posted on 15th June 2016 by Mia

Secrets of the Tsil Café is a coming of age story set in the world of food and enhanced with numerous recipes. Weston Hingler is the son of two cooks. His mother, a strong-minded but slightly neurotic Italian caterer, raises him … Continue reading →

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