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,
Author: Brian Garrido
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
I have written many times that my mother wasn’t really a cook. She was a working, single mother and it wasn’t really in her repertoire
As a kid, I didn’t like tomatoes. I found them not only tasteless but mushy or sometimes, hard and inedible. My mother, a good Southern

When I want to make something to eat, I first think about what I have in my fridge that will make something decent to eat.