The absence of Dino was the first sign that the owners of my favorite Italian deli, Minelli’s, have passed the torch to a younger generation. Not too long ago, Minelli’s moved to new quarters. One thing that apparently didn’t move with them was the bobblehead Dean Martin doll that used to watch over the meat [...]
I had a friend whose 4-year-old son would eat only white foods. As many mothers can relate, this is not an unusual phase for young kids to go through. For a year, she gritted her teeth and served him nothing but pasta, rice, potatoes, white bread, and chicken breast. I was thinking of this recently [...]
The fun of making espresso at home.
Do we really need a law to help us eat sensibly?
I run a cookie recipe site and was doing some research to see what keywords and phrases people are searching for in the cookie recipe realm. Researching “brownies” was an eye opener. It seems that a whole lot of people out there are searching for recipes for brownies that carry an extra payload in the [...]
“Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.” –HMS Pinafore, Gilbert & Sullivan I loathe skim milk. There, I’ve confessed the truth, in all its nutritionally incorrect squalor. They always say that if you eat or drink something long enough, you’ll get used to it. Sure, skim milk doesn’t taste as good [...]
The E. coli-tainted spinach that killed three and sickened 200 people in 26 states and Canada has again focused attention on whether food safety oversight in the U.S. is too fractured. The National Academy of Sciences, the government’s General Accounting Agency, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest and other consumer groups have [...]
I recently read the late Julia Child’s memoir, My Life in France, which was published earlier this year. It’s a quirky book, a series of often disconnected vignettes, but it is an entertaining read, opinionated and charming and endowed with a sense of humor, like Julia herself. You can hear her relating the anecdotes in [...]
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