CHIC Podcast #34: Nutrition and Whole GrainsPat Plavcan and Holly Maloney are our nutrition teachers and they sat down with me to talk about whole grains and how they can drastically affect our diet. It's a lively discussion as usual. These women are great! Enjoy the...
Hungry Magazine #22: Cheap Wine, Oh So FineThis week I sit down with Cameron Hughes, the man some folks are dubbing the robin hood of wine. Hughes owns no vineyards, makes no wine, but he has an inside connection to some of the best wineries that do. The...
So, my Auntie Jean is visiting from Australia, and I've shaken her down for the infamous clootie dumpling recipe -- the right one -- from my mother's side of the family. She thought she could escape by living halfway across the world, but she seemed to know in advance that...
ReMARKable Palate #52: Clayton Farmer's MarketI visit with Julie Ridlon who takes me through the wonderful offerings on hand at the Clayton Farmer's Market in St. Louis, which she founded 7 years ago. We visit with farmers who have Calhoun peaches, heirloom tomatoes, eggplant, torpedo onions, corn, hydroponically grown salad...
All You Can Eat #21: Queens of the BarbecueThis week, more about barbecue, featuring three 'queens of the 'cue'!“Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a...
The food events are starting to bloom here in the Hudson Valley as Autumn quickly approaches. Yesterday I was at Taste of the Nation at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park (just down the road from one of my very favorite places on earth), and I got to...