Archive for the ‘The Air, Land and Sea’ Category

The Parasol Mushroom

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Listen to the podcast of this post: John J. Goddard - Parasol Mushroom, 12.19.2007 Mushroom hunting is so popular in continental Croatia that it's practically considered a sport. It really is terrific fun, and aside from being a good excuse to spend hours milling about in the forest like an idiot, ...

Smoked Avocado

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

A few weeks ago I saw a recipe for guacamole on a popular food blog that called for "perfectly ripe" avocados. I was compelled to comment that there's so much joy to be gotten from unripe and over-ripe fruits and vegetables, even avocados. More than a few cultures are known ...

Meat on a Hot Xylophone

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Someone decided to have roštilj (barbecue) at Igor's weekend place in Tržić, way up in the wine-growing Samoborske Gorje, about an hour from Zagreb. In true northern Croatian fashion, there was plenty of meat, including thick trenchers of GRILLED BACON. Igor pulled the requisite green onion crudite from his garden, but ...

I want the funk uncut.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

All at once, I'm giving a new format and a new feature a spin today. Such daredevilry is most often the jurisdiction of heros, emperors and utter fools, and I am, without question, no emperor or hero. Older articles with larger images will probably look wonky until I get ...

Heirloom tomatoes?

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Norway has agreed to foot the bill for a "doomsday" vault to house seed specimens of food-producing crops. This is good to know. In the event of a cataclysm or major F-up that'd prevent the normal cultivation of food crops for a while, we'd be in trouble without a back-up. ...