The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

By Jill Davis Doughtie

Hot coals on the barbeque
This is based on a James Beard recipe G’s mom found years ago when G was still a kid. They liked it so much, they called it Platonic marinade, and it’s been a family favorite ever since. G barbecued chicken for me with it when we first started [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie
These chocolate chip muffins are adapted from Deborah Madison’s Basic Buttermilk Muffins recipe in Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. Her recipe offers lots of fruit variations and doesn’t suggest using chocolate chips. Ritzy Chicken never uses up an entire 32 fluid oz. carton of buttermilk, so in the weeks that I make that, [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie
“Psychoanalysts have revealed some of the ways in which the tales represent our secret fears and preoccupations – from being devoured to having a mother or stepmother who either starves you or stuffs you with food in order to eat you up.” — A.S. Byatt, “Happily Ever After“
There’s something about feeding and [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie

Chris and Jack can be pretty selective about what they’ll put in their mouths, chew up and swallow.
I was no exception as a kid. I used to pick every possible fiber of fat out of any chicken I ate, strand by strand, with my fingers. Chicken fat revolted me. I wouldn’t eat [...]

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“When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him. His throat will close, and spots of nausea and rage swim in his vision. It is hard, [...]

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