by julescatering | Apr 4, 2014 | Entertaining, Events, Food History, Our Favorite Things, Parties
Jules Catering celebrates Red Sox Opening Day at Fenway As always when exploring Jules Catering’s kitchen, we felt a powerful pull toward the bakery, where, on the eve of the Red Sox 2014 home opener, something really special was going on: Shortbread cookies...
by julescatering | Dec 4, 2012 | Food History, Menus, Our Favorite Things, Products
Jules has a thing about potato chips “That old girl is a girl after our own heart” was the word from Jules Catering, after we screened this one-minute vintage television commercial for Scudder’s Potato Chips: “We have a lot in common with Laura...
by julescatering | Nov 8, 2012 | Entertaining, Events, Food History, Holidays, Menus, Our Favorite Things, Parties, Party Planning, Products, Vendors
“…is a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards…with a red Coat on.” So wrote Benjamin Franklin, tongue at least partly in cheek, in a 1784 letter to his daughter, noting that “this respectable...
by julescatering | Jun 14, 2012 | Entertaining, Food History, Our Favorite Things, Recipes
“The fool looks for figs in winter,” said the 2nd-century Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. But today, less than a week from the summer solstice, it’s not too soon to set our sights on figs. California produces 98 percent of figs grown in the U.S., and...
by julescatering | Mar 17, 2012 | Food History, Food In Literature, Holidays, Our Favorite Things, Products, Team
Why ‘corned’ beef? For thousands of years people have cured and preserved beef by covering it with salt the size of kernels of corn, and the name corned beef refers back to a time when the word ‘corn; was applied to anything granular. The Irish...
by julescatering | Feb 20, 2012 | Cookbooks, Food History, Our Favorite Things, Recipes, Travel
While George Washington described his manner of living as “plain,” and noted that those who expect more than “a glass of wine and a bit of mutton may be disappointed”–and while Abraham Lincoln’s bodyguard reported that the President...
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