Paula Panich | The Literary Gardener

What God Hath Intended

October 1, 2014 by Paula Panich

Pectin makes it all possible. Pectin is one of God’s best ideas, purveyed in fruity packages. No question: God intended us to have jellies and jams and marmalade. This is why I take my marmalade straight, by the spoonful . . .

Categories: Food • Tags: 17th century cookbooks, countess of kent, culinary essays, english food history, english marmalade, food essays, food history, food writers, food writing, frank cooper's marmalade, marmalade, Paula Panich, pectin, the Literary Gardener, the writing disorder

Usner’s Map: A Writer and Photographer’s Survey of the New Mexico He Loves

December 7, 2013 by Paula Panich

Photographer, writer, and cultural geographer Don J. Usner was a speaker at FUZE-SW, Santa Fe, New Mexico’s first food conference, held in early November this year (2013). He and another accomplished writer, Carmella Padilla (The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest, and many other books) came to the podium together to address the […]

Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: Chimayo, Chimayo's Old Plaza, Don J. Usner, New Mexico, New Yorker photographs of Chimayo, Sabino's Map

FUZE-SW Food + Folklore in Santa Fe: Mestizaje, Chocolate in Chaco, and What We Ate ,

November 19, 2013 by Paula Panich

(This is the second of my whacky and wildly incomplete posts on the FUZE-SW Food + Folklore Conference in Santa Fe, held Nov. 8-10 at the International Museum of Folk Art.) Here is what we had for lunch on Saturday, November 9: Oh, it was tasty: Sweet corn custard; Jalisco sopes, Nopal salad, Poblano mole, […]

Categories: Food • Tags: Food in Santa Fe, FUZE SW, history of chocolate, Museum if International Folk Art, New Mexico, Santa Fe

FUZE-SW! Food + Folklore in Santa Fe: The Elements of the New Mexican Table

November 14, 2013 by Paula Panich

FUZE-SW 2013, Food + Folklore Festival took place November 8-10, 2013 at the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For the sixty or so people lucky enough to attend Santa Fe’s first food conference, we were treated to the thinking of the most astonishing line-up of chefs, food scholars, anthropologists, historians, […]

Categories: Food • Tags: Cuisine of New Mexico, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, Food in Santa Fe, Food of the Southwest, Gustavo Arellano. James Campbell Caruso, Jeffrey Pilcher, John Sedlar, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Rivera Restaurant, Santa Fe, Santa Fe cuisine

FUZE-SW Food +Folklore Festival, November 8-10, 2013

November 8, 2013 by Paula Panich

Greetings! I will be blogging and Instagramming all weekend from the first annual FUZE-SW Food + Folklore Festival at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the topic of the conference will the the past and present folklore and customs that fused to make the fantastic culinary traditions of New […]

Categories: Food • Tags: folklore of New Mexico, Food, Food of the Southwest, FUZE-SW Food + Folklore Festival, Museum of International Folk Art, New Mexican Cuisine, NM, Santa Fe, Santa Fe cuisine

Alice Munro: My Goddess Wins the Nobel Prize

October 11, 2013 by Paula Panich

This is my Alice Munro bookshelf. Every book published, at least in this country. I began reading her a quarter of a century ago. I not only love her writing — that’s a given — but I will be forever grateful to her for the opening and clearing of my own writerly voice. She has […]

Categories: Writing/Artmaking • Tags: Alice Munro, Alice Munro Nobel, First Canadian Woman Awarded Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, Nobel Prize for short stories

Photojournalist Abigail Heyman, 1942-2013

July 17, 2013 by Paula Panich

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/06/08/arts/20130608Heyman-obit.html?ref=design “I have been a girl child and, in my expectations, a mother . . . I have tried to be prettier than I am. I have been treated as a sex object, and at times I have encouraged that. I have been married and have seen my husband’s work as more important than […]

Categories: Writing/Artmaking

The Perfect Peach: An Interview with Mas Masumoto

July 6, 2013 by Paula Panich

NB: Reprinted (so to speak) from the Summer 2013 Eden, the quarterly journal of California Garden and Landscape History Society, www.cglhs.org. Photo: Staci Valentine, from: David Mas Masumoto, Marcy Masumoto, and Nikiko Masumoto, The Perfect Peach: Recipes and Stories from the Masumoto Family Farm (10 Speed Press, 2013) The Perfection of the Peach: An Interview with Mas […]

Categories: Food • Tags: California organic farming, Mas Masumoto, organic farming, peaches

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Author Archives: Paula Panich

What God Hath Intended

Usner’s Map: A Writer and Photographer’s Survey of the New Mexico He Loves

FUZE-SW Food + Folklore in Santa Fe: Mestizaje, Chocolate in Chaco, and What We Ate ,

FUZE-SW! Food + Folklore in Santa Fe: The Elements of the New Mexican Table

FUZE-SW Food +Folklore Festival, November 8-10, 2013

Alice Munro: My Goddess Wins the Nobel Prize

Photojournalist Abigail Heyman, 1942-2013

The Perfect Peach: An Interview with Mas Masumoto