The Good Food Hour Archives

LITTLE-KNOWN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN DESSERTS


These are sweets that shouldn’t be forgotten. They are often the stuff of our childhood. Many have regional or international roots but if you aren’t from that part of the world, you may not know about them.

BANANAS


BANANAS FOSTER Serves 4 This is thought to be the Bananas Foster recipe from the original source and creator of this dessert: Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans. Created in 1951, the dessert was purportedly named for Richard

ICED AND FROZEN SWEETS FOR SUMMER


A quick history: Iced sweets such as ice cream, sherbets, granitas, snow cones, frozen drinks and the like have been around a long time, since at least 4000 B.C. Nobles along the Euphrates River built icehouses to

TACOS


FISH TACOS WITH CITRUS SALSA AND CABBAGE SLAW Serves 4 Fish tacos have become all the rage in recent years and trace their roots to Baja Mexico. In this recipe all the components can be made ahead

NOT YOUR ORDINARY BURGER


John Wayne and Jean Arthur in “A Lady Takes a Chance” 1943.   A little history about burgers. According to Alan Davidson in his wonderful encyclopedic book The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford University Press 1999), the