Because I am an immigrant, I have no family here other than my husband and daughter. So I’ve adopted a family, some people of my heritage, with whom I share experiences and with whom I socialize. Each year at Thanksgiving, we do a pot luck Thanksgiving dinner at my restaurant. Each of these families boasts of at least one [...]
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Although for centuries fennel has been a homeopathic remedy that relieves gas on the stomach, it has lately become a fashionable ingredient in salads. A fennel plant, which looks something like a stalk of celery, provides a wonderful taste when its base is chopped and added to salads or soups. The base, called a “bulb,”is [...]
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Most theories hold that eggplant came from India, mostly because there are still some regions in that country where eggplant grows wild. The vegetable most likely went from India to the Arab world, and from there to Europe carried by the Crusaders nearly a thousand years ago. Although it is most widely used now in [...]
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In my home tomatoes are one type of vegetable we can’t do without. We eat them raw, cooked, chopped, sliced, and whatever other way there is to ingest them. We eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and for snacks when there is no meal on the table. The food literature I’ve been reading tells [...]
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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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