Q: What do Betty Draper and Marcella White Campbell have in common?
A: They both own this cookbook:
I will prove it! I will scan my cookbook’s cover!
That’s right. Separated by decades and the mists of real and not-real, Betty Draper and I both cook from Betty Crocker’s Hostess Cookbook. I’m sure that both of us do [...]
Burrata is an Italian cheese, made with fresh mozzarella stuffed with cream. It has a soft texture, almost like ricotta in places, and tastes like cultured butter would taste if it were cheese. I first tasted it on my last trip to A16 two years ago, and then bought a $10 tub of it to [...]
(Note: I am cheating by reposting a tasting from the Golden Age, when we could afford such cheeses, i.e. August ‘08. We’ve had it since, and it was still excellent.).
When a cheese is $31.99 a pound, 0.14 lb. of it had better go a long way.
We ate this cheese in tiny flakes with Acme bread [...]