Posts Tagged ‘Pie’
Oyster Pie
About an hour after arriving in Valdez, and less than 24 hours after arriving in Alaska, I received an invitation to spend the night on a fishing boat in Prince William Sound. My dear friend Sandra, on hiatus from the Harvard Peabody Museum, has been spending her summer working at the Valdez Museum and I took her up on the offer to visit. She’d borrowed a minivan from her friend Neal to pick me up in Anchorage, where my flight got in at eleven-thirty at night. Upon arrival I noticed the visible station of the sun and a quantity of handsomely taxidermied animals positioned about the airport, and felt certain that I’d landed in a different place.
Kitchens I Have Loved: Rose Geranium Peach Pie
This will be the first in a series of writings about places that I’ve cooked in and their related recipes. Because I’ve moved from one place to another quite a bit over the years, I’ve become handy at making food in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar tools. A few kitchen implements have made it through many transitions, but mostly, I’ve learned to make do with what’s at hand — without things like measuring tools, frying pans, baking sheets, sieves, sharp knives, microwaves & toasters, mixers, and the like. It’s nice to fetishize cooking equipment, but such things really aren’t necessary to make good food. For that, you’ll surely need decent ingredients and a bit of skill, but really good food requires good reception — friends and family to eat with. The kitchen is where the action is in a home!
