by Brian | Aug 23, 2017 | Recipes
Suzi and I are on a grand tour of Turkey. No, we haven’t actually left New York City, but we are wandering the lively pages of Turkish Delights by John Gregory-Smith. Turkey is big, like bigger than Texas. There is far more to Turkey than Istanbul and Turkish Delights...
by Brian | Aug 22, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Once you have visited Lisa Fain’s award-winning blog, www.homesicktexan.com, all you can do is bookmark it and return again and again to the delightful ideas and refreshing flavors. Three years ago she put many of her ideas into this essential cookbook: The Homesick...
by Brian | Aug 22, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
In late summer the farmers markets can display some oddities for us. Like gooseberries. Native to Europe and Western Asia, gooseberries have a small but happy following in the United States. They are immensely popular in Great Britain and this recipe comes from the...
by Brian | Aug 18, 2017 | Recipes
Two weeks ago I saw the first red leaves. Now, on August 18th, there are red and gold dashes up and down the Hudson Valley. And many of those trees that were bright green in July have adopted serious traces of brown camouflage Autumn is arriving, sooner than normal...
by Brian | Aug 17, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
She was wonderful. Powerful. And a bit intimidating in the kitchen. She had “command presence.” Suzi and I shared our kitchen with her while she prepped Thanksgiving turkeys in August for a November magazine article. A half dozen turkeys in August heat. She was a...
