Some of Vicki's Recipes
Vicki
continues to write regularly about food, and her 1990 book On
The Nature of Food is a popular volume among the cognoscenti both
for its recipes and, more importantly, for its historical and anthropological
insights into the background of the foods we eat. Her columns about food are
syndicated in newspapers from Florida to New England. And she has just written a
new book called The Taste Makers. This
contains new material and was published in December 2003.
We plan to keep publishing her articles and recipes on this Web site. This will take time, so we start here with spices and dessert! Keep checking here for new goodies on a regular basis.
Here is a list of the articles available in this section (the first five of these, marked with a *, have been updated in The Taste Makers but the early versions remain here since some people may have them bookmarked):
 | The "Three Sisters" of basic American food * |
| New World Plants * |
| Chili Peppers * |
| Squash * |
| Sweet Potatoes * |
| Mushrooms, especially morels |
| A Perfect Parcel, the Magical Egg |
| Cookies |
| A recipe for Chicken Tetrazini |
| Historical notes on turkey |
| An entertaining letter about violets |
