Archives for April 2015

for A MEDITERRANEAN FEAST

         

Cook (English)-Coquus (Latin) is where you will find cooking inspired by the Land of Cockaigne, a Pantagruelian celebration of food, cooking, cuisine, and gastronomy. We begin with FOOD, the raw material humans consume to meet the physiological requirements of sustenance, then to COOKING, the transformation of food through heat that prepares food to be consumed, to CUISINE, the way of cooking that transforms eating into an object of intellectual and aesthetic appreciation as a codified, formal and symbolic ordering of culinary practices, to GASTRONOMY, the study and contemplation of cuisine and its relationship to art, society, and civilization. The result will be food writing about traditional recipes and innovative home cooking from culinary cultures in context, where soulful home cooking gives heirloom recipes. Read more here. Cook-Coquus is the complementary site to www.CliffordAWright.com.