One of the best things of being a food photographer is the access to new tastes, flavors and ...
I learned to eat the year
I starved in Paris.
Like so many
American kids, I lived the cliché of ...
There was a time when gathering people around a fondue pot to cook their own food was very popular. ...
While I wait (and wait) for our local asparagus, it occurs to me that everyone else is not waiting. ...
A couple of weeks ago I experienced a revelation: I tasted my first pea shoot.
I was at the Little ...
Mediterranean flavors are the ones I turn to when I'm in a cooking rut and can't figure out what to ...
How can anyone resist tart and tiny kumquats, sitting so cute and bright in the produce department ...
Cake Ingredients
3/4 cup butter or margarine (at room temperature)
1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 leeks (white and pale green parts only) cut in half lengthwise, then thinly sliced
3-4 potatoes ...
2 pounds russet potatoes (3 to 4 medium), peeled and cut into 3/4-inch chunks
Salt and pepper
2 ...
This is adapted from Mark Peel and Nancy Silverton at home. It’s partly the chilled salad plates ...
1 duck, 4-5 pounds
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 bay leaf
2 pounds ...
One thing I sadly miss living on the west coast of the USA are the Atlantic sea offerings in all ...
Under chef Walter Manzke, the Melrose Place restaurant's third incarnation is quite the experience.
Here's what I like about California: People think nothing of driving 82 miles for lunch. (In New ...
These cookies I hold near and dear to my being. When I was with my grandma, I could simply be me. ...
If you are not serving Prime Rib for New Year's Eve, but still want to be a little bit fancy, this ...
There's no better time of year to bless the ties that bind. Holidays are about traditions, and the ...
From the Huffington Post
When you think of Christmas dinner, what's on the table? Maybe a standing ...
I love soccer so I get really excited when I go to visit my dad in London where it’s soccer ...
I’ve spent most of my life turning up my nose at mushrooms. That all changed last summer when I ...
When I was little, I had absolutely no idea what Easter represented. All I knew was it had ...
With Easter just passed, who isn't thinking about eggs? When I was a kid I loved dyeing and ...
I’m a California Jew. If one were to compare ethnicity in terms of packaging, we’d be ‘plain ...
There’s no denying it – I am a pork-man through and through. Though I am not one of these 20 or 30 ...
“Ouch,” my husband groaned miserably as something metal jabbed him in the side. “It’s like ...