by Brian | Jan 31, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Elsa Petersen-Schepelern was a Danish-Australian food writer with over 20 books in her portfolio. She passed away in 2005 but her books remain culinary gems. I’ve been paging through Fingerfood, her tribute to appetizers. We often do our apps at the last...
by Brian | Jan 31, 2017 | Recipes
In the dazzling new book Big Bad Breakfast, author John Currence goes all out to exploit his Southern culinary heritage. Born in New Orleans with all its French influence, he went to college in Virginia and North Carolina, but often visited Charleston in the...
by Brian | Jan 30, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
John Currence is a busy man. Born in New Orleans, he eventually migrated to Oxford, Mississippi, a town of 21,000 people in the rural northern end of Mississippi. In that rather small town, John has 6 restaurants. He feeds the town and then the hordes of people from...
by Brian | Jan 30, 2017 | Recipes, Super Bowl
If you can find figs now, and you might, then here is a lovely salad that can be the centerpiece of a Sunday Brunch. A Superbowl Sunday brunch.! Created with a cascade of flavors and colors and textures, this salad is one of the “appetizer” ideas you’ll find in the...
by Brian | Jan 26, 2017 | Recipes, Super Bowl
Here’s a recipe from three years ago that I loved, one whose flavor I summon up in a flash. For Super Bowl, these can be a lively centerpiece to your Sunday feast. “What are you making?” Suzen asked me. I was upstate. She was in the city. It was dinner...
