12 Dec The Fifth Taste: Cooking with Umami
There are some foods that inherently evoke a unique and irreplaceable experience; we taste one tomato soup and are humbly content, while another sets off fireworks in our mouths....
Food Writing
04 Sep Felicia’s Fignolias
Keddy lives in Houston. Her Celeste fig bears a fair-sized crop each year, and she always tells me about it. Envious, I listen....
21 Aug Learning to Speak Italian
There is a popular aphorism in Italy, “Si parla come si mangia,” which literally means one eats like one talks....
09 Aug Cookbook Mania
I own a very rare Icelandic cookbook, a World’s Fair Souvenir cookbook printed in 1895, and a facsimile edition of ancient Roman cookbook with translated versions of the original recipes on the left and modernized versions on the right....
09 Aug Grandma’s Banana Bread
Comfort foods. They evoke images of childhood, of family dinners where there were more arguments than peas, and of Sunday afternoons sitting at Grandma’s kitchen table....
25 Jun Italian Salads
Salads may not normally serve as appetizers in Italy, but the lavish photographs and simple recipes in Italian Salads will whet your appetite for the freshest of flavors from Florence, Rome and Palermo....