Biographers of Harriet Tubman always recount an incident from Harriet Tubman’s youth, in which a young Harriet was discovered by the mistress of the manor stealing a sugar cube. Realizing the woman planned to beat her, Harriet ran away and hid in a pig sty for about four days. According to Harriet, she was unaccustomed…
gluten-free dessert
Honest Food: Gluten-Free Dark Chocolate Cappuccino Cake
“All of them, having suffered through periods of restrictions, practiced that ancestral cooking of hard times knows as la Cuisine de Misère to millions of French women. Practicing la Cuisine de Misère meant cooking something with nothing. It meant adouber a tiny piece of meat with more vegetables, more dumplings, more sauce to make sure…
Shout Out for La Condesa of Austin: Best Gluten-Free Dessert
Food and Wine Magazine has listed Pastry Chef Laura Sawicki’s Boca Negra dessert as among one of the best gluten-free desserts in America: http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/americas-best-gluten-free-desserts#!slide=15 According to the note that accompanies the picture of the dessert in the Food and Wine slideshow, Sawicki uses six varieties of chiles, as well as Valrhona chocolate, to make this…
Not Guilty: Gluten-Free Limoncello Cheesecake Supreme
“Cheesecake packs a sensual wallop unlike anything in the natural world because it is a brew of megadoses of agreeable stimuli which we concocted for the express purpose of pressing our pleasure buttons” Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature) “If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.” Julia Child (qtd by…
