Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage,… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived. — John Thorne Copy Share Image
It can only truly be Texas red if it walks the thin line just this side of indigestibility: Damning the mouth that eats it… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
