Quizine: Manger Française? Mais Oui!
Has French food gone out of style? Has the haute kitchen that once held supremacy over all other culinary traditions…
8 years ago
Micki McClelland
Food Lover’s Quizine: Royal Jelly
In a beehive, worker bees watch the queen bee very closely for signs of failing health. Once the queen croaks,…
8 years ago
The Rain Poem
(Editors’ Note: In light of the recent multiple storms and flooding we thought a blast-from-the-past story about how the rain…
10 years ago
Gastrique: A Boiled-Down Quizine
Long a feature of My Table magazine, the loquacious knowledge-grilling-test-for-foodies Quizine now joins SideDish in a more modest condensed form. Reduced…
10 years ago
Snake Followed By Brunch
I ran into Curtis and Duwayne the other day out on the ranch road. They seemed more than usually confused,…
10 years ago
A Brief Discourse on When to Name the Soup
One of the more pleasant moments in the creative process is crowning the original work with a title. Giving a…
11 years ago
T is for Trencherman
I stumbled across an odd word yesterday. Completely in the dark about the meaning, saying it aloud tickled my lips,…
11 years ago
Confused by Fusion?
Ever wonder what scientists talk about at a cocktail party? Being types focused on what they are focused on and…
11 years ago
Do Do That Voodoo Gumbo
Finding fresh okra at the grocery store or farmers’ market can start a party in the mouth – a party…
11 years ago
Thanks, Dad!
“Oh my Pa-Pa, to me he was so wonderful …” Sung with unrestrained emotion by crooner Eddie Fisher, “Oh My…
11 years ago
Fung’s Praises Sung
I remember going all wiggly with excitement the first time I entered the fenced circle to take a pony ride…
11 years ago
Rebellion
The Day My Daughter Took Back Her Tongue “M is for the many things she gave me…” From the song…
11 years ago
Goth Milk?
A Recipe for Horror Take an old castle, half of it ruinous. A long gallery, with a great many doors,…
11 years ago
Down for the Calorie Count
Never once in all my years have I ever considered going on a diet. In youth I was a skinny…
11 years ago
The Persian New Year
Goldfish for Luck, the Wild Olive for Love, and Nuts to Problems Whether pagan or Christian, Jew or Muslim, Hindu…
11 years ago
Potent Poteen Gets Those Irish Eyes Smiling
Is everybody ready to wear the Irish blue on St. Patrick’s Day? Maybe a nice blue ribbon or blue carnation…
11 years ago
Eating Oysters with the Walrus
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” —The White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the…
11 years ago
Eggs on the Run
“Tis hatched and shall be so.” —William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew The egg is a curious object. As…
11 years ago