I suppose it’s because I’m a Midwesterner, but when it comes to cherries, I’m a sour cherry man. Pie, turnovers, ice cream toppings…that’s where the money is with cherries as far as I’m concerned. There are one or two sweet cherry recipes that sway me, however, and clafoutis is one of them. And whaddya know, […]
READ ONI had to take another sudden trip to farm country. My apologies. However I will say the crops are looking fabulous. Combine state-of-the-art seed and machinery with an early planting and lots of rain and the result is corn that’s practically up to my shoulders already. So much for the oft-quoted adage “knee-high by the […]
READ ONThe nice thing about dog biscuits is that you can improvise a great deal with them, incorporating just about any element that your dog either likes or that you want to add to his/her diet. That said, feel free to swap ingredients in or out of this basic formula. As long as you have enough […]
READ ONReader Giovanni asks: Would you be able to explain how gluten affects dogs? I’ve heard that it is not great for their digestive system but am skeptical to believe that it’s true for all breeds. Thanks Giovanni! Having consulted the joepastry.com house veterinarian, Dr. Amanda Rizner, I have been authorized to say that while some […]
READ ONReader Jim C. of Chez Jim notes that dog biscuits go back at least as far as 1623 in Spain. Evidently, “pan de perro” was referenced in a play by Lope de Vega, a contemporary of Shakespeare and one of the great luminaries of Spanish Golden Age literature. Who knew dog biscuits had a literary […]
READ ONEveryone who’s driven I-71 between Louisville and Cincinnati in the last decade has seen the six-story yellow-tinted statue of Christ in front of Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio, locally known as Big Butter Jesus. BBJ, or “Touchdown Jesus” as he is also known, has been a source of both humor and controversy for years. […]
READ ONAren’t dogs carnivores? And if they are, why do we feed them grain and vegetables? A very interesting question, reader Dianne, I’ll do my best. Though dogs are natural hunters, they aren’t strictly speaking carnivores. Sometimes they’re classified as omnivores, but that doesn’t quite capture it either, since dogs can’t make a living eating shoots […]
READ ON…but how many of you remember Snuffles, the dog biscuit-adoring dog from Quickdraw McGraw? Here he is in his cartoon debut. I recommend watching the whole thing.
READ ONLondon. That’s where they were supposedly invented by accident, sometime in the 1880’s. A popular myth has it that they were invented at a butcher shop, one whose owner was experimenting with a savory biscuit recipe (for humans). The biscuits were so bad, it’s said, he was forced to feed them to his customers’ dogs, […]
READ ONReader Brian sent me this image, showing me just how cool joepastry.com looks fed into the nifty news aggregator, Pulse. The New York Times may not approve of Pulse, but I certainly do. I mean, what better addition to your day than a steady stream of Joe Pastry posts? Plus there are all sorts of […]
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