by Brian | May 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Italian afternoons now end with an expanded concept of food and wine. It's not just some pizza and wine. Sophisticated food and incredible cocktails are found at "aperitivo" time in Italy, particularly the major cities in the north where...
by Brian | May 31, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
When I want a good cookie, I make it. Packaged cookies in the store can be okay, but they are often hard, rock hard. They have to be to survive a truck journey of hundreds of miles from factory — not bakery — to your store shelves. If those cookies were...
by Brian | May 30, 2016 | Recipes
Some good things can be easily made, very easily. Take labneh, often referred to as Lebanese cream cheese. Just take yogurt, put it in a cheese cloth, tie up the cloth and suspend over a bowl. When the liquid has stopped draining, you have labneh. It’s a kitchen...
by Brian | May 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last December I posted this recipe and I just was kinkly informed that I had left off four of the ingredients: like the spaghetti, radicchio, lemon juice and ricotta. It was a blunder and I appreciate the correction. Here is the recipe in full. In The Lemon Cookbook,...
by Brian | May 29, 2016 | Recipes
I recently posted a review of The Kitchen Shelf, a new and clever book for “us.” Many of us have not attended culinary school, have very busy lives, and need some assistance in the kitchen. What should we buy to stock our kitchen? What can we cook that is...
