Saveur's May 2006 issue is mostly uninspiring

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted May 5th 2006 @ 8:56PM

Normally, when I peer into my mailbox, my heart skips a beat when I see that it's overflowing because something much too large for my tiny apartment box is filling it up. It's my newest issue of Saveur magazine, and whenever I receive it, I can hardly wait to get upstairs to my apartment. I toss all the bills and junk mail onto the kitchen table and stand over my sink eating a bowl of cereal, reading the magazine.

This month however, Saveur is extremely ho-hum. This is about the time when I do a summary of the articles and features in the magazine so you can decide if you want to go spend the $5.00 at the newsstand to buy it. But there is almost nothing in the magazine that I want to mention, and even though my summaries are usually fairly inclusive whether or not I would actually cook or bake certain things, overall, the entire issue is blah.

Oh well, I do it anyway.

In Spain, corn is considered animal feed, and is not used much in the cuisine. However, in the region of Asturias, corn is highly revered as the grain practically saved the the Asturian people from starvation in the 1600s. There's a recipe for an Asturian corn cake.
The cookbooks of the month are The Breakfast Cereal Gourmet, which we covered here at Slashfood, and an enormous volume called Mango and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent.
Seven doughnut shops around the US get a mention for providing good ol' fashioned doughnuts.
Vegetarian cook Deborah Madison shares how she cooks in her tiny 11'x9' kitchen in New Mexico.

The Cellar highlights Albarino, a wine made from grapes grown mostly in the Galicia region of Spain, but increasingly in the Americas.

Elegant Edibles makes a Texas snack mix that screams "Come and Take It!"

Marie Pascal Lescot journals her duty on the jury for the annual Concours Regional des Fromages Fermiers de Corse, which is an artisanal cheese competition.

Dolmades started in Persia, made their way to Turkey, and landed in Greece. We already knew that, but Saveur's picture is better.

The big cover story is on Matakana in the northern reaches of New Zealand with recipes for Macadamia-Crusted Lamb with Honeygar Reduction, Green Bean and Radish Salad, Muesli,Cockle Fritters with Aioli, Blueberry Brioche, and the one recipe that I will likely try this month, Zucchini Tart with Feta.

The secons big feature is on the lemons of Sorrento, Italy. Anyone know where I can get some Everclear to make Limoncello?

Hawaii is the next savory stop, with a focus on the chefs at Honolulu's Side Street Inn

More travel, this time to the village port town called Newlyn in Cornwall. The best recipe in this story is for the small savory turnovers we know as Cornish pasty.

Filed Under: Magazines, Lists, In Sixty Seconds, Drink Recipes
Tags: america, australia, british isles, cooking, corn, doughnuts, drinking, eating, europe, food, food and drink, food and wine, italy, recipes, saveur, saveur magazine, wine

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

5-05-2006 @9:25PM kn said... don't know where you're at, but grain alcohol is actually illegal in many states -- including new york where i am. when i want to make limoncello, i either have to take a trip to jersey, or i order it online: http://www.internetwines.com
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