Shortly after noon on Saturday, I was walking down to the car rental place on 77th Street. We were ...
A couple of summer months filled with many beachside lunches of paella so good and so long ago that ...
Umbria is the only province in Italy that doesn’t touch the sea. That’s one reason they call it the ...
Well, I am embarrassed to admit that I got overwhelmed in Whole Foods the other day. Here I am a ...
A week without a trip to the farmers' market is like a week without the sun: it makes me grumpy. I ...
Who doesn’t love Spring? With days growing longer, buds turning into blooms and winter produce ...
Gazpacho, how much do I love you? This cold, raw tomato soup hails from Andalusia, Spain and if I ...
Adapted from Maida Heatter’s Cakes, recipe for “Currant Cheesecake”
Pre-heat oven to ...
1 bunch of watercress
2 heads of endive
chop the endive in thirds, and break off the tops of the ...
My older sister could cook, she just did not enjoy it. So I was the designated cook when I lived ...
2 leeks (white and pale green parts only) cut in half lengthwise, then thinly sliced
3-4 potatoes ...
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup toasted almonds, coarsely chopped
3 teaspoons minced ...
I have often found myself envious of some guys because of their wives. Not because of their looks, ...
It’s so darn good to get awaaaay. I’m bored with the predictable patterns of my home life: my ...
Capital Grille is fine dining in Providence. It seems like they've been around forever and it's 25 ...
This is a fish story about Latitudes at the Wentworth Hotel. It starts with a beach tour so I get ...
I was a weird kid. I never ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. My mother never had to tell me ...
There are many stories regarding the history of Hot Cross Buns. One interesting one comes from Alan ...
Once upon a time, when my future husband and I had just started dating, he called me one Saturday ...
Ever since reading Rousseau’s On the Origin of Language, the idea of the origin myth has compelled ...
Mother’s Day was always a meaningful day in my life, but not because of my own mother. Because of ...
Mother's Day is a special time to appreciate our mothers and the mothers of our children. A ...
We have all experienced great meals, ones that we talk and think about again and again. And then ...
Perhaps it's their association with English tea and ladies' garden luncheons that make scones so ...
I have always associated peaches with July and August. That is until a few years ago when I ...
I had never heard of M.F.K. Fisher until I started working at One for the Table. She was/is ...
I am half Norwegian and half Irish American. Both of my parents' families were, as you can imagine ...