With Fat Tuesday quickly approaching, I wanted to find some good Cajun/Creole recipes for the big day. I remembered reading about a book that is part of an old series of books from Time-Life called Foods of the World. This particular book is entitled, American …
What did I know about oysters? In retrospect, next to nothing until I read Shucked, by Erin Byers Murray. In fact, my only experience with harvesting shellfish was limited to a couple of hours spent digging clams at a beach behind my sister’s apartment in …
Reading the book, Cook Wild by Susanne Fischer-Rizzi brought back memories of a smelt fishing trip that some friends and I took some years back on a cold April night on Lake Michigan on Chicago’s north side. We built an impromptu hobo oven from an …