foodie
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Cuban, Polish, and Mine
Plantains are familiar to me in the Cuban context. The wish to relive the tastes of my childhood is often not enough, though. I cook them every so often, always combining the taste I know, with the taste I want. Although non-existent in my childhood, I like the wide array of taste in meats. Today…
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Papaya re-composed
Papaya seeds provide as much joy to the palate, as the fruit’s outer presence to the plain view. As I tend to have blueberries at hand weekly, and they are certainly precious in their raw state — not just baked in my cornbreads — a decomposition possibility came to my senses. The first try was…
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With Intent — Beetroot
What steers the direction of the intense? Such is the intensity of color, and structure of a beetroot that the individual reaction to it is bound to be devastation or elevation. What decides which will be? The beetroot, or the recipient of its qualities? Through cooking, or other procedures, the essential properties of these roots…
Sila Blume 