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Smothered pork chops take us South by way of New York City

June 24, 2017 by Steve

Mashed potatoes, a mess of slow-cooked greens and a meltingly tender chop soaking in rich sweet onion gravy is the kind of meal that demands a nap afterwards, at least if you haven’t been working in the fields all day. It’s not the kind of thing we have often in Gourmandistan, as we’re usually searching for something more exotic. But we had a moment recently when fresh local pork and farm share curly kale and potatoes reminded us of this […]

Categories: Cooking, Food, Meats, Onions, Pork, Recipes, Southern Food

Saying goodbye to Fil with sukiyaki

June 26, 2016 by Michelle

After 94 years of curiosity, crossword puzzles, conversations, travel and more, Steve’s “mom,” Filomena DeMarzo Farley, died last week. Fil was the older sister of Steve’s real mother, who died when he was a toddler. Fil was born in Orange, New Jersey and grew up as part of a large, interrelated Italian family. Gourmandistan has brought you bits of Fil’s childhood before, told through stories of struffoli and eggplant parmesan, and we may very well visit Mechanic Street again. But on the […]

Categories: Beef, Cooking, Family, Food, Japan, Onions, Recipes, Tofu

A side dish for all seasons

July 9, 2011 by Michelle

One of Michelle’s recent rummagings of antique store cookbook sections resulted in a copy of Roy Andries de Groot’s 1966 Feasts For All Seasons. De Groot’s books were a big influence on many of the 1970s and 1980s California chefs—particularly his Auberge of the Flowering Hearth (1973), which describes a year of seasonal cooking at a small inn in the French Alps. De Groot’s wealthy, blue-blooded, European perspective can sometimes be a bit annoying, but there’s much that is incredibly […]

Categories: Cooking, Food, Old cookbooks, Onions, Recipes, Vegetarian