TasteSpotting may just be my favorite food site at the moment. My triathlon teammate Debra turned me on to it a few weeks ago, and now I’m hooked like a prized marlin. The site’s rather brilliant — a collection of the best recipes from the … Read More →
This wonderfully simple recipe for pumpkin cornmeal pancakes was made more difficult because I had a hard time finding the key ingredient — the canned pumpkin. I was unaware that there’s been a canned pumpkin shortage going back to the end of ’09 — whether … Read More →
In this month’s issue of Saveur is an article on calçots, the Catalonian delicacy of green onions blackened over an open fire and served with romesco sauce. The last sentence of the article is wonderfully evocative: After sliding off the onions’ scorched outer layer, all … Read More →
Next door to Shiraz Persian Restaurant in Elmsford is the Middle Eastern market of the same name, Shiraz Gourmet. I went in looking for bread that would go well with mashed smoked eggplant (mirza ghasemi), an appetizer I’d eaten at the restaurant Shiraz last week … Read More →
Farro-Fest
You know that phenomenon where you’re introduced to a new word, and suddenly you come across that word in bunches? That’s what happened with farro. Someone mentioned it to me, and boom, I was reading about it in magazines, hearing about it on Top Chef … Read More →