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Savory Smackdown

June 30, 2015 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

Does it ever seem like the Foodie Nation has gone cuckoo? You know, “Sand-blasted Galician shitake-nuanced gluten-free crostini made from stalactite flour grown on the moon.” What created this multi-layered/cultural obsession with food?, I asked Executive Chef Gregory Rollins, sitting next to me at the high-energy “Got to be NC” Competition Dining Series event we were […]

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Filed Under: Cooking/recipes, Essay, Pop Culture Tagged With: Graylyn chef Rollins, Graze, Jimmy Crippen, NC Competition Dining, Perky's Bistro

A Meeting with Maya Angelou and Unexpected Gifts

May 28, 2014 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

I interviewed Maya Angelou for the Greensboro News & Record’s Go Triad arts section in the fall of 2010. She lived in the next town over, Winston-Salem, NC, and was releasing a cookbook for the holidays. I was nervous meeting an icon whose work I had admired greatly for decades, especially after being instructed to only refer […]

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Filed Under: Cooking/recipes, Entertaining, Essay, Maya Angelou Tagged With: cookbook, daughters, Maya Angelou, mothers, recipes

Q&A: Teresa Engebretsen, the Sabbatical Chef, on How to Speak French and Indulge Your Inner Francophile

April 27, 2014 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

Teresa Engebretsen has been teaching French to middle school students at Durham Academy in Durham, NC, for over 30 years. Often she takes her students on field trips to France. Her blog The Sabbatical Chef began when she took a sabbatical from teaching in 2008, lived in Arles, and worked with a French chef. It’s […]

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Filed Under: Author Q&A, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining, Love, Travel Tagged With: Francophile, French cuisine, Learning French or any language, Opposites Attack, Travel

PISSALADIERE RECIPE – THE QUICK AND EASY (ALYCE) WAY

September 11, 2013 by Jo Maeder 3 Comments

Hi. This is Alyce speaking. Or Al-ees, as the French say. I chained Jean-Luc to his computer to write. Also so he can’t see me make my E-Z pissaladiére (or the spelling of easy). Pissala is a fish paste made from sardines and anchovies. I’ve left it out. This is supposed to be quick and easy, […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining Tagged With: Alyce, Jean-Luc, Opposites Attack, Pissaladiere recipe

SOCCA!

August 17, 2013 by Jo Maeder 2 Comments

Somewhere in my Opposites Attack research of foods popular in the South of France, I read about socca, a flat bread/pancake/crêpe made from chick pea (a.k.a. garbanzo bean) flour. It sounded more like a Latin-American dance than something you would eat. One passage stuck in my head about a man at a big outdoor market […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining Tagged With: Chick Pea Flour, David Lebovitz, Garbanzo Bean Flour, Living the Sweet Life in Paris, Nice France, Socca recipe

WILD BOAR DAUBE FEAST (PART FOUR) – MORE COOKING & DEVOURING

August 7, 2013 by Jo Maeder 2 Comments

When I decided to dive into this challenge with the same naive pluck as Alyce, the heroine in Opposites Attack, I thought what was the worst that could happen? It would be awful, we’d order pizza and drinks lots of French wine. In the end it’s about the company. Fortunately, pizza was never delivered. You’ve […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining Tagged With: D'artagnan.com, fatback, French Connections, Gentleman Jack, June Gardens, lavender, Provence tablecloths, rosemary mashed-potatoes, wild boar daube, wild boar recipe

WILD BOAR DAUBE FEAST (PART THREE) – COOKING ROUND ONE

August 5, 2013 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

In the words of George Clinton and The Parliament Funkadelic (and later M. C. Hammer), it’s time to “turn this mutha out.” If you’re still wondering why on earth you should try wild boar much less cook it, just google “wild boar feral pig swine problem” and you’ll see what a menace they are. The meat […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining

WILD BOAR DAUBE FEAST (PART TWO) – MARINATING

July 30, 2013 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

ALLOW AT LEAST THREE DAYS TO PREPARE THIS MEAL, FOUR EVEN BETTER. A few words about how I came up with this wild boar daube recipe. While writing Opposites Attack, I studied many French cookbooks and let my taste buds guide me as I cooked the recipes in my head. Now, years later, many readers […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining Tagged With: A l'Olivier, cooking a wild boar daube in summer, D'artagnan.com, French extra virgin olive oil, J.V Fluery, lavender, Mark Oldman, Michel Gassier, Viognier wine, Zeto Wines

WILD BOAR DAUBE FEAST (PART ONE) – PROCURING

July 29, 2013 by Jo Maeder 2 Comments

In my novel Opposites Attack, our heroine Alyce slays a wild boar in self-defense, has a butcher cut it up and invites over a large group of students from the French school she’s attending for a boar daube (the French version of stew). It’s a turning point for her. While intrepid in many ways, her self-esteem […]

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Filed Under: Books by Jo, Cooking/recipes, Entertaining Tagged With: Ariane Daguin, D'artagnan.com, Sassy Sow Juice, Wild boar

MY NEW LOVE AFFAIR: LAVENDER (PART 2)

July 17, 2013 by Jo Maeder Leave a Comment

One thing I’ve learned the hard way at farmers markets is that if you see something you like, grab it. Which is at odds with my “I have to look at everything first” approach. One such Darn It I Missed It moment came when I spied a beautiful lavender wreath at the Hauser Creek Farm stall at […]

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Filed Under: Cooking/recipes, Entertaining Tagged With: Alethea Segal, cooking with lavender, Hauser Creek Farm, lavender centerpieces, lavender wreath

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