We can definitely tell it's March when every food magazine does a special on St. Patrick's Day, and Saveur goes all out by dedicating almost all of its March 2006 issue to Ireland.
Before we go jetting off across the Atlantic, we take a look inward, with a recipe for Red Velvet Cake from Cake Man Raven Confectionary in New York. This is something I may try, as I have long had a bit o' beef with red velvet - I never quite understood what red velvet tastes like.
There's a list of the ten best US chocolate makers, tasting notes of a dozen wines from the East Coast, and whether "blackened" catfish is really Cajun. I think we already answered that.
Thirty five pages dedicated to Ireland, plus a few end notes as well! Traditional recipes for the likes of colcannon and corned beef, obviously, but there are also interesting articles about County Cork, a veritable mini-mecca of food.
The treasure in the magazine, though, is a mini-feature on Trinidad. My favorite recipe that I'll likely never get to make is for mango kucheela, a condiment made from dried green mangoes, shredded and pickled with habanero chiles.
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