by julescatering | Apr 11, 2012 | Entertaining, Our Favorite Things, Parties
“A table should enhance the food, not dominate or distract,” Anita replied, when we asked about her approach to setting a buffet table. “The simpler the better. Like a frame that properly sets off a painting, a table should promote the food’s...
by julescatering | Mar 20, 2012 | Entertaining, Food In Literature, Our Favorite Things, Parties, Products
Runcible spoons…edible spoons. The first is pure nonsense, the second pure genius! First, the nonsense: From the age of 16, Victorian poet-artist-illustrator Edward Lear (the 21st child of 22 children!) was drawing “for his bread and cheese.” A few...
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...
by julescatering | Jan 11, 2012 | Cookbooks, Entertaining, Our Favorite Things, Products, Recipes, Restaurants, Travel
We love our bubbly, but when recently celebrating New Year’s Eve in Athens, our drink of choice was the Tears of Chios Cocktail served in the Roof Garden Bar atop the historic Hotel Grande Bretagne on Syntagma Square. At first sip we knew we were onto something...
by julescatering | Jan 5, 2012 | Cookbooks, Food History, Food In Art, Our Favorite Things, Travel
Athenaeus, a scholar of food history who lived around 200 AD, observed that “the ancients employed many dishes to whet the appetite.” Focusing now on actual dishes–i.e., plates–we couldn’t agree more. Ancient vessels On a recent visit to...
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