Sunset at Island Lava Java Cafe and Bistro Captain Cook Bay from the Coffee Shack We've been eating delicious meals during our ...

I had a long discussion today with Julia (above, holding a segment of sugar cane). She was giving out samples of food at a cultural festiv...

"Curry is not only among the world’s most popular dishes; it also may be the oldest continuously prepared cuisine on the planet," ...

Kitchen Maid Peeling Turnips by Chardin, 1740 I'm reading A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine by Susan Pinkard. Among...

Fruit and Wine for Tu B'Shevat Celebration Saturday is Tu B’Shevat, a Jewish holiday that honors trees, especially fruit trees. Alth...

Right-Side Out Cookies Alice and I baked these cookies during her visit last week. She suggested that we make "Inside Out" co...

Miriam folded the napkins into beautiful flowers for a dinner last weekend. Alice set the table. The menu included Ellen and Alec'...

Ingredients for stuffed eggplant The completed eggplant Butternut squash spread with tahini Miriam ready to eat Israeli food ...

If you were surprised a couple days ago to learn that I carefully followed three entire recipes from my new cookbook, so was I. (For deta...

Yotam Ottolenghi, an Israeli Jew, and Sami Tamimi, an Israeli Arab, work together at Ottolenghi’s restaurant in London. Their re...

Dinner tonight: Alec and Ellen's Award-Winning Chili, made according to their recipe, using their special Texas chili seasoning mix. ...

Jay and Ruby Other things we selected from the dim-sum carts: potstickers, pork buns, almond and mango pudding, three kinds ...

I am reading Tequila! A Natural and Cultural History by Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata and Gary Paul Nabhan. Science and poetic description combi...

For lunch, we couldn't go out for sushi since we still had a lot of turkey and other leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner. So I made Th...

The whitish green eggs are from a hen named Jello and the brown eggs are from a hen named Marguerite. Jello and Marguerite and another he...

Turkey, cranberry sauce, plum chutney, and several vegetables Ready to eat... Apple pie, chocolate pie, cranberry bread...

By the time we arrived here in West Lafayette, the turkey was in the oven and almost everything ready to cook for Thanksgiving dinner, which...

From the incomparable mathemusician Vi Hart, here is another video. She now has 4 Thanksgiving videos, and a Halloween video with a sierpins...