03 Feb 2013
Posted by Steven Schwartz 
Just like food has origins, so does liquids of the fermented, distilled and brewed species. The history, culture and people who find passion in this end of the culinary world are no less passionate about their vocation and this vocation is fun and rich in history. Alcoholic beverages have had a place...
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31 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Schwartz 
My late wife used to say that soup could bring about World Peace. While this sentiment is sweet and kinda silly there is some truth in that statement. No matter where you travel there is soup, I have never been to a country which had a soup or many in one form or another. Soup is more than it seems,...
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24 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Schwartz 
It is part of the North American food vocabulary, you may even at this moment have a few in your kitchen, but many of us have no idea where they come from and what a real bagel really is. This simple beloved bread product has come a long way, it has evolved like most food and has mutated into something...
Read more → 13 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Schwartz 
Food trends come and go, some are amazing and change the face of dining forever, one look at the California Roll or Taco and you realize that a food from somewhere else have evolved and woven itself into your nomming world. Then there are the Dodos or T-rexes of food hobbled and doomed by stubby little...
Read more → 13 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Schwartz 
Just like in biology, there is a Taxonomic Classification of Food. This may sound silly but hear me out. As a Geek and self described Social Food Anthropologist, FoodOrigins.tv will have a continuing “Taxonomic Field Guide of Noms”. Think of me as the Darwin of Nom. Food has so many variations...
Read more → 13 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Schwartz 
For many just the thought of French food brings up a recoil of complicated food served on large plates with little portions in a stuffy white linen dining room by a server who will probably look down and mock you. This is what keeps many from choosing French food as a regular dining spot. A food genre...
Read more → 04 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Schwartz 
Nurture or nature? When it comes to food in my case it was possibly both. I was born in Montreal, spend the first 8 years of my life in Birmingham Alabama, then grew up and into an adult in NYC. But that exposure alone was not enough to make me love food and culture. I was raised Jewish, pretty secularly...
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