Tiny Banquet Committee: announcements Obama

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

hey hello, is there anyone here?

It's mercifully easier to end my unscheduled blog-hiatus with a brief announcement rather than an epic post about what I've been up to during the past six months. So, I'm inviting you to a bake sale.

It's this Saturday at Hanger Bar (3rd Street between Avenues B and C) from 1 pm until 7. I will be contributing herb focaccia and maybe some cookies too, if I can really get my shit together. If you can't make it to 3rd and B, go to MoveOn.org and see if there's a Hungry For Change bake sale in your neighborhood.

Favorite posts from ye olde Tiny Banquet

Paul Wonner's dutch still-life with stuffed birds and chocolates from the california artists cookbook

Rainy Day Snails #12 & 35, part of my ongoing series of reviews of out-of-print cookbooks. This one is about the California Artists Cookbook (1982).

A tale of two Seventies, another out-of-print cookbook review. The subject of this one is New York Entertains by the Junior League of the City of New York (1974).

a mild cake for pleasant dreams: cornmeal cake with honey syrup and chamomile-honey crème anglaise

vegetarian pastries filled with kale, dandelion greens, green garlic, fresh dill and mint, and goats' milk feta cheese

wouldn't you buy roadside maple syrup from these two?

Every once in a while I write about dinner and a movie. The Trouble With Harry was nice with chickpea flour pancakes with black olives and sage & a celery/hazelnut/Manchego sort-of-salsa.

We set off for Maine every summer.

a thrilling rustic box of Canadian wild-caught cod

Sometimes we fall off the vegetarian wagon, usually in a moment of culinary now-or-never-ism. If it's any comfort to vegetarians poking around the archives, we were always far more likely to chomp on sea creatures than anything with expressive eyes . . . More about this subject here.

coming attractions

A trio of vaguely-Russian ice creams ~~in hope and despair of~~ in celebration of freedom for Pussy Riot: Antonovka apple & bay leaf custard; Russian tea & red currant; beetroot & cinnamon sorbet.

Luxury melons.

Bumpy eggs and other delights from my new cookbooks.

Hikers sometimes get the munchies. My hikers' cookies include dark chocolate chips, pistachios, barley flakes, dried apricots, and cacao nibs.

Sarson ka saag / Punjabi mustard greens.

I read a description of quince aioli and now I have to have some. They're not in season right now but Manhattan Fruit Exchange has some from who-knows-where.