I thought I’d reveal a little information about one of my new side projects! I am working to launch a You Tube Channel, which will feature fresh, 10 minute videos offering tips, tricks and recipes for cooking healthy food. While videos produced especially for You Tube are being prepared, they are not yet ready. However, [...]

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Food peddlers, selling their wares from carts can be found in most Eastern Mediterranean villages and cities.  These carts usually appear in the afternoon, remaining until late evening.  Because in that part of the world everything must be freshly picked, the food peddlers sell only what vegetables or fruit that is in season.  Wintertime brings [...]

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All over the Mediterranean no meal is considered finished until cheese is served.  It is thought to settle the stomach and helps to digest one’s meal.  In good restaurants in Europe the waiter usually brings the cheese tray with a selection of different kind of cheese on it to allow the customer to choose. Food [...]

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I had never eaten Porcini mushrooms before 1995, but we were on vacation in Italy around this time and each restaurant in Italy made several dishes with tasty mushrooms.  I loved Porcini mushroom so much that I bought dry one to last me for several months. Food historians tell us that mushrooms were used by [...]

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