We've been enjoying some nice meals recently. Elaine and Larry joined us in one very nice outdoor dinner. We barbecued a whole spatch-co...

George Taber's book ranges over many topics related to the May, 1976, blind comparison of several wines from brand-new California prod...

I'm reading a book about wine: The Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine...

The House of Representatives has passed the food safety bill. See: House Approves New Food-Safety Laws in the New York Times. Tracing of f...

Elaine, Larry, Lenny, and I decided that after having lunched at Red Hawk, we should eat dinner in. So we had a pick-up meal: some frozen po...

Pineapples, peanuts, avocados, and the turkey are all popular foods that originated in the New World. In the recipes and historic overviews...

This is a work in progress: The bottom layer in these glasses is my first attempt at Vegan Chocolate Mousse. It was a little too stiff: I ne...

As I said, I decided to try some salads from this week's New York Times 101 salads . I made one with watermelon, peach, basil, bacon, an...

I'm about to try some of the 101 recipes that were published in this week's New York Times food section. So I needed fresh basil, ...

I've been enjoying Pomp and Sustenance by Mary Taylor Simeti, whose other books I've enjoyed in the past. Sicilian heritage, she sh...

In less than a year's time, an undeveloped park on Chicago's lake shore became a nearly magical "White City" -- the nation...

At Cafe Zola downtown: the crepe florentine. In Paris crepe stands and little crepe-specialist-restaurants near Place Jussieu, I've eate...

For my new culinary book club, a future selection is Ian Kelly's Cooking for Kings: the Life of Antonin Careme the First Celebrity Chef ...

Evelyn had a CSA challenge: she felt bullied by cabbage, which was supplied in reasonable quantities, but enough to overwhelm her. She doesn...

This year at the art fair several big companies were promoting products by giving away samples. Young women and men were walking around with...

This week I attended the first meeting of a new culinary book club sponsored by Motte and Bailey booksellers, the kind of independent bookst...

I recently read about an effort to impose ethical standards on food bloggers -- specifically, should a blogger accept free products, promisi...

From Saturday's Farmers Market basil, I decided to make pesto. Here for the record is the recipe I found, with my changes. Basil-Walnut ...

Quite early this morning, we went to the farmers market; first, we refilled our supply of Ernst Farm lamb and beef. Last night we cooked the...

I've been browsing in the book Medieval Arab Cookery. It includes a scholarly edited version of two manuscripts of recipes, and a numbe...