When The Zucchini reach the old world, you can say, it was magic.  The Italian not only gave the squash variety its commonly known name, but they have developed dozen of ways to cook zucchini.  Both the Italian and the French have created so many wonderful ways to eat zucchini it would be impossible to [...]

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Anyone who has planted zucchini squash will know what the “abundant” means.  It is one vegetable that, once planted, resembles Jack’s beanstalk.  That is, the zucchini vine never stops growing, so the question now, “what do we do with them all?” And we might wonder why such a plethora of vegetables doesn’t exist with hard [...]

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It is officially summer which means the opening season for picnics.  Whatever the menu in any picnic, there is always a potato salad on the table.  I pride myself of trying every dish that someone bring to a gathering, the only exception is the potato salad. Don’t misunderstand me, I like potato salad like most [...]

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One of the great invention of cooks in the Levant is Bulgar wheat.  Bulgar is made by parboiling wheat, which is defined first as boiling the wheat, then drying it.  One can find Bulgar wheat in most stores because it full of nutrient, has more fiber than rice and does not effect the blood sugar [...]

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 Some of the best dishes in every cuisine in the world has been developed from the creativity of ancient cooks who refused to throw away food that is not fresh either because of poverty orbecause the lack of access to plentiful ingredients.  In the Mediterranean, bread was a basic ingredient that should never be wasted. Cookes used dry and [...]

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My Italian friends would scream if they knew I mention tofu and Italian in the same sentence let alone using it in Italian food.  One of the characteristic of tofu is that  it is flavorless.  Some people find that to be very disadvantageous. For me, I see that as a plus. Because tofu has no taste it can [...]

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When my husband’s sister, Virginia, was alive, she kept the entire family amused by denying her age.  Some people call it “lying” about one’s age, but with Virginia, we always called it “being in denial.”  For example, one day at lunch, her daughter told us that she was having her 50th birthday the second day.  [...]

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