Sadly, I didn’t have a good food childhood. Once my parents divorced, it was mostly canned stuff my mother (or I) prepared, since the only
Year: 2014
If brining was all I had to think about I would be one very happy man. Unfortunately, it’s not, but brining (i.e cooking) makes me
As a home cook, I choose my recipes very carefully. I want them to be simple. I don’t need to have toasted fennel seeds, combined
Lettuce is one of those funny foods that I don’t think anyone really thinks about. There was a time when it was just diet food,
I watched the new Lasse Hallstrom film “100 Hundred Foot Journey” with Helen Mirren…and it made me want to make an omelette. The movie is
In my mind, cauliflower never ranked on the culinary wheel. There were more interesting vegetables to eat and cook. It wasn’t until I was on
My friend Mark is a homecook like me but he loves to make complicated Moroccan food. The dishes that are thirteen thousand ingredients and counting.
I love simplicity.”Keep it simple”, I say to myself constantly. (I try remembering that phrase in everything I do.) I’ve realized that when something becomes
During the seventies, which is when I was growing up, it was difficult to be single mother in the workforce. Alas, I didn’t grow up
I don’t know a lot about Cuban food. I do know that much of originated from the Canary Islands and Spain, just like most of