I’m dying for a salad. Any kind of salad – Greek, Caesar, Cobb (sans egg), spinach, mesclun… At this point I’d attack a wedge of iceberg like it was an apple and I was a starving rabbit. True confession: I actually mewled when I passed by the salad bar at Whole Foods the other day. […]
Anyone who knows me is well aware of my love of food. I like to cook it, bake it, eat it, write about it, talk ad nauseum about it and was humiliated on national TV because of it. I even gave up a 30-year career in daily journalism to pursue my food-inspired talents. So why […]
1. She thinks because she didn’t go to college she’s not as smart as some people. Truth be told, she’s smarter. 2. Mom’s the best judge of character. 3. She doesn’t hesitate to pinch me under the table when she thinks I should shut up. 4. Kids at family gatherings surround Auntie Camilla like she’s […]
CHESTNUT HILL — It started with parking attendants directing cars like they do at Gillette Stadium, and then moved onto a scrum at the Asian hot take-away bar. There was incessant choo-chooing of an overhead train by the dairy case that drew screams from a overexcited tot named Adam. Maybe it was the mosh pit […]
this Zagat post with you since I am a HUGE fan of New York’s Hudson Valley. Besides my gazillion trips to the Culinary Institute of America for bootcamps and one-day classes (they really should give me a diploma by now), I plan my spring through fall forays around the Rhinebeck Farmers Market. It is, hands […]
I was on a quest to find some early rhubarb the other day when I walked into Volante Farms in Needham. Sadly, there wasn’t a reddish pink stalk to be found, but, wait, are those morels???? Spring has truly sprung! Morels are mushrooms (for you fungi-challenged), a tasty gourmet delicacy shaped like little honeycombed cone […]
Like our two spoiled silly cats, my husband and I are creatures of habit. We each drink our coffee out of the same mugs every morning and he must have a snort of single malt every night. My standing Starbucks order is a “venti non-fat one Equal latte.” No shots, thangyouverymuch. At our local Asian […]
After years of turning my nose up at bumper stickers and their stupid sentiments like “I Love My (Dog’s Head)” and “Ask Me About My Grandchildren,” I succumbed. It came in the mail a few months ago with a thank you from the American Farmland Trust for my donation. It reads, “No Farms, No Food.” […]
I ran into an Epicurious post today on Facebook that professed the web culinistas’ love for Costco. The article – 14 Things We Love About Costco — ran in November, so why it appeared today in my newsfeed is a mystery, but it did strike a cord. Because I, too, feel the need to show […]
Editors note: The correct pronounciation is “I’ll have the Saa-lod Nee-Swaz, he’ll have the Nyokkee.” Face it, we all have a couple of ethnic foods we can’t pronounce. I’ve butchered “mascarpone” for years by referring to the Italian-style cream cheese as “mar-scapone.” And that seems rich since I hail from the Land of the Dropped […]