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This page indexes articles in this blog by place.  Where an article has a significant reference to more than one place, I have cross-referenced it to more than one, as appropriate.

(Northern) California

  • “Bong’s chicken”
  • “Bullet ice cream and other strawberry tales
  • “Chez Panisse almond tart, and how even the best recipes evolve”
  • Chez Panisse garlic soufflé
  • “Chez Panisse leek and goat cheese tart: a vegetable with history and a tart that symbolises a revolution”
  • “I used to cook in a piggery”
  • “Mikey’s mom’s banana chocolate chip bars”
  • Olive oil and sweet wine cake
  • “Piggery chocolate mousse”

Denmark

  • “Easter 2020”
  • “Easter is late this year”
  • “Rødgrød med fløde” (Danish red fruit pudding)
  • “Scandinavian smørrebrød”

England

  • Apple butter and ginger cake
  • “Afternoon tea of a faun”
  • “Asparagus now!”
  • “Autumn leaves”
  • “Bonfire Night:  food cooked over fire”
  • “Blackcurrant streusel cake”
  • “The British apple and its orchard heritage”
  • “Bullet ice cream and other strawberry tales”
  • “Cambridge in December: festive partridge and pear”
  • “Cambridge in March: English asparagus and rhubarb”
  • “Cambridge in November:  wild venison and walnuts”
  • “Cambridge in June: spring lamb and summer strawberries”
  • “Celery, stilton and sage tart” (Fenland celery)
  • “Cherries sour, cherries sweet”
  • “A Christmas Essay”
  • “Christmas card from Cambridge”
  • “Cook it with flowers: chocolate rose cake, and tips for making pretty salads”
  •  “Elderflowers: champagne, cordial and a cake”
  • “The fall and rise of the tomato”
  • “Finding time in the festive season”
  • “Fried green tomatoes in England”
  • Sicilian gelato di vaniglia
  • “The humble onion and other September treasures”
  • “January citrus rituals I: marmalade”
  • “Last-minute fruitcake with rum and vanilla”
  • “Late-summer recipes”
  • “Light in the darkness”
  • “A Maytime tea celebration”
  • “A Midsummer Night’s Eve potion”
  • “Mohawk apples”
  • “November magic”
  • “October in Cambridge: apples and squashes”
  • “Peas in the Pod”
  • “The pleasures of the plum: a season in review”
  • “Primula vulgaris: a common treasure”
  • “A Progression of rhubarb”
  • “Rose geranium sponge cake”
  • “Rose and violet shortbread biscuits”
  • “In search of the honest apricot”
  • “Thanksgiving cornbread stuffing”
  • “Troubleshooting short-crust pastry, sweet and savoury”
  • “White asparagus time”
  • “Wholesome carrot breakfast muffins and a finely textured carrot cake”

Europe (general)

  • “Cambridge in December…” (on the history of gingerbread)
  • “Easter is late this year” (on Easter  bread)
  • “White asparagus time” (Germany, Scandinavia, Spain, UK)

France (general)

  • “Blackcurrant streusel cake”
  • “Chicken braised in cider with buttered apples”
  • “October in Cambridge: apples and squashes” ( on Toulouse-Lautrec’s pumpkin gratin)
  • “The pleasures of the plum: a season in review”
  • “Slumped dumplings and other lessons from the kitchen”
  • “Troubleshooting short-crust pastry, sweet and savoury”

Alsace (France)

  • “Cambridge in December: festive partridge and pear” (on gingerbread)
  • “The humble onion and other September treasures” (on flammkuche)

Montpellier (France)

  • “Apricots, les abricots”
  • “In search of the honest apricot”

Paris (France)

  • “Tour D’Argent: a remembrance of things past at today’s prices”

Germany

  • “White asparagus time”

Hawaii

  • “Favourite cookies: snickerdoodles”

Hungary

  • Dobosh torte step-by-step

Ireland

  • “Chocolate Guinness cake”

Italy (general)

  • “A Christmas essay”
  • “Ciambellini al vino (Umbrian red wine and aniseed biscuits)”
  • “Easter is late this year” (Italian Easter bread: pane di Pasqua)
  • “January citrus rituals II: spremuti”
  • “Italian comfort: baked chicken with potato, tomato and parmesan”
  • A Maytime menu to cook together:  asparagus and pea ravioli and coffee crème caramel”
  • Mina’s Napoli sea bream with pink peppercorns, coriander seeds and rosemary
  • “Sicily I: Noto town and markets”
  • “Sicily II: Caponata”
  • Sicilian gelato di vaniglia
  • “A slow food trip to Le Marche, Italy”
  • Umbrian chickpea and pasta soup
  • Umbrian baked rigatoni with sausage and peas

Japan

  • “Cherry blossom”

(Southern) New Jersey

  • Apple butter and ginger cake
  • “Bullet ice cream and other strawberry tales”
  • “Thanksgiving cornbread stuffing”
  • “Cherries sour, cherries sweet”
  • “The fall and rise of the tomato”
  • “Fried green tomatoes in England”
  • “Fresh coconut cake and cream pie, oh my”
  • “Finding time in the festive season”
  • “In tomato fields”
  • “Moving kitchen”
  • “Peach cobbler:  in search of a lost recipe”
  • “Stalking wild asparagus”

(Northern) New Jersey

  • “Italian comfort: baked chicken with potato, tomato and parmesan”

North Carolina

  • “Moving kitchen”
  • “Peach cobbler:  in search of a lost recipe”
  • “Thanksgiving cornbread stuffing”

Norway

  • “Bullet ice cream and other strawberry tales”
  • “A Midsummer Night’s Eve potion”
  • “Syttende mai”

Sardinia

  • “Light in the darkness”

Scandinavia (general)

  • “A Christmas essay”
  • “Scandinavian smørrebrød”
  • Toscakaka (caramelised almond cake)
  • “White asparagus time”

Sicily

  • Olive oil and sweet wine cake
  • Pasta ‘nsciata (pasta bake with aubergine)
  • Sicilian caponata
  • Sicilian vanilla gelato
  • Sicily I:  Not town and markets
  • Sicily II:  Sicilian caponata

South Africa

  • Malva pudding with coconut and rum

Switzerland

  • Madeleine Kamman’s profiteroles pontresina

Texas

  • Apricots, les abricots
  • Chili time, and that means enchiladas
  • “Thanksgiving cornbread stuffing”

Umbria, Italy

  • Chickpea and pasta soup
  • Umbrian baked rigatoni with sausage and peas

United States (general)

  • “Best Food Writing 2016”
  • “Favourite cookies: snickerdoodles”
  • “Thanksgiving cornbread stuffing”

United States (Southern United States)

  • “Caramel cake distraction bake”
  • “Fried green tomatoes in England”
  • “Thanksgiving cornbread stuffing”

United States (Southwest, esp Texas)

  • Tamale pie
  • Chili con carne
  • Enchiladas

What you will find here

Crumbs on the Table  is a food blog with tested recipes, and stories about food.  I aim to share the best recipes I know, and something of their context: the places they come from, … More

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Recent Posts

  • Wholesome carrot breakfast-muffins, and a finely textured carrot cake
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  • Tamale pie
  • Sicilian pasta ‘ncasciata: pasta bake with aubergine
  • Rose and violet shortbread biscuits

Featured recipes

Napoli bream with pink peppercorns, coriander seeds and rosemary

Tuscan-style grape and walnut harvest bread

South African malva pudding with coconut and rum

Citrus jelly with passionfruit

Sweet potato quesadillas

Rhubarb sponge crumble

Asparagus and pea ravioli

Coffee crème caramel 

Apricot pie

Garlic soufflé

Fish with grilled cucumber

Baked gooseberry caramel pudding

Chocolate rose cake

Sicilian vanilla gelato

Celery, stilton and sage tart

Fresh coconut cake and cream pie

Duck legs braised with beans and herbs

Roasted tomato soupRoasted tomato soup with coconut milk

Chez Panisse almond tart

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IMG_9245Baked chicken with potato, tomato and parmesan

Chocolate pots de crème

Peach and prosciutto panzanella

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Roast potato, chicken and bacon salad

Norwegian waffles

MK's Profiterole PontresinaProfiteroles Pontresina

Bong's chicken with artichokes

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I share with you here some of the cookbooks, blogs, food memoirs, and other culinary writings I have found most delicious, intriguing, and helpful over the years.  This … More

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