Stories about food
Our mission here at A Cook Not Mad has always been to get people off the couch and into the world, or the kitchen.
That said, our main focus is and always will be food and travel and we want you to join us in tantalizing people’s taste and travel buds. If you are a blogger, food writer, chef or traveller and have a travel story that relates to food, we want to hear from you. Contributors to this series will become “cooks not mad” and help others discover food from around the world. Please visit the guidelines page before contributing.
a memoir of the foods of India I have always enjoyed books that mix storytelling with delicious recipes. Food Sutra – a memoir of the foods of India is one of those books. Don’t get me wrong, it is not a “recipe book” in the typical sense; although…
Time to play I have had some fun playing with my new Anova Nano precision cooker lately. If you are at all culinary inclined you have probably heard of sous vide cooking, the method of vac packing or bagging a food product and then cooking it in a…
Dark and Dreary months During these dark and dreary months here in the Pacific North West it was like a ray of sunshine when I opened my copy of Provisions a cookbook with roots in Caribbean cooking. Written by sisters Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau, very successful restaurateurs in Kingston Jamaica with…
Pulling out Pulling out of Altamura our Fiat 500 was filled with the smell of fresh bread still working its magic sitting in the sun on the back seat. Looking forward to a brisk jaunt of twisting scenic country road to our next destination, Matera, I was sadly…
Getting to Altamura After the snow, rain, sleet, construction, high street and low, we found ourselves approaching the glorious little town of Altamura in the comune of Apulia in the province of Bari. The sun had popped out and I made an awesome sighting of a group of… Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Montasio Several emails back and forth with the Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Montasio had us scheduled to visit a cheese factory a couple of hours outside of Trieste in Udine. We arrived in Udine and promptly located our host Isabella in the parking lot and after a… Continue Reading Montasio DOP: a perfect model of Italian industrializationFood Sutra – a book review
Sous vide cooking with Anova Nano
Provisions – a book review
Altamura to Matera in 20 minutes
Tales from the Table: Pein Assutt
Montasio DOP: a perfect model of Italian industrialization
