Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival claims to be one of the premier culinary events. I feel further research on my part is required before I support this claim, but, thanks to Foodbuzz, I attended this event on Sunday, and holy cow! In a recent post, I touched on the current culinary obsession of...
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Spring is here, I see color wherever I look, especially at the Farmers Market – not the color coordinated palettes of winter – the lush jewel toned browns, greens, and golds, but the clashing vibrant fireworks of blues, reds, pinks, and greens – mostly greens that harold in the new season. One of my...
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Smoking foods adds tastes and aroma to foods that to quote Emerile, “takes it up a notch”. I’ll confess – I love just about anything smoked, and as I live in an apartment, smoking foods is sometimes the closest I can get to my version of a barbecue. Discovering foods to smoke, and even...
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Hawaii, the United States’ backyard paradise, is one of those places that is almost impossible to define in terms of its cuisine and culture. The indigenous people were devastated by disease and fighting when Captain Cook settled on the islands. Since then, people from China, Japan, Thailand, Korea, the Philippines and points beyond arrived...
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See for yourself… April Fools’ Day, or All Fool’s Day is celebrated in many countries on April 1 with practical jokes played family members, colleagues, and neighbors. The origin of April Fools’ Day is obscure. One likely theory is that the term referred to someone still adhering to the Julian Calendar, as opposed to adopting...
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I’m not sure what prompted me to make my own batch of orange bitters, it may have been my success at my last batch of liqueurs or the news of the 2009 Angostura bitter shortage – gasp. My midwestern instincts to stockpile kicked in on the news, and I has seen a few recipes for...
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