
Odysseus on Ithaca
...with talk of sea-urchins and asphodels, the food of the dead
Cookstory is a show-and-tell way of looking at how people cook at home all over the world. The images are based on my own watercolour sketches collected over a lifetime of travelling with my paintbox.
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...with talk of sea-urchins and asphodels, the food of the dead

plus talk of the culinary traditions of Euskadi

...how to gather mastic on Chios

...cooked with sour plums, cinnamon and aniseed. Tomato is so columbian-exchange.

...with talk of ouzo, pelicans and unusually small sardines

...and how to cook 'em

...and how to cook 'em

..and other thoughts on reasons to celebrate the summer solstice

....including recipe for sweet tarhonya with grape-syrup and walnuts.

....with recipes for rabbit and strawberries (of course)