by Brian | Jan 20, 2020 | Recipes
I just reviewed Oaxaca, a new cookbook devoted to the magnificent cuisine of Mexico’s culinary capital. This is a comfort food dish, one you are more likely to find in a home kitchen than a restaurant. Author Bricia Lopez suggests you eat without knife and...
by Brian | Jan 20, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It often turns out that the political capital of a nation is not its culinary capital. Nobody really goes to Washington, D.C. to dine. In France, you go to Lyon for the very best food. In Italy, it’s Bologna. And it Mexico, it’s Oaxaca. Which is both a city and a...
by Brian | Jan 16, 2020 | Recipes, TBT
I feel guilty. My bird feeders are almost empty. I need to fill them. There is a strong wind, a wind chill factor near zero, and snow on the way. Winter is definitely still with us. We need great winter meals, including desserts. From five years ago,...
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by Brian | Jan 16, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
A few years ago, Suzi and I were on our first trip to London – yeah, we’d already been to Paris a dozen times – and we were humbled. London is huge, gorgeous and delicious. We had lunch at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant, a buzzing culinary hotspot. It was a meal you don’t...
by Brian | Jan 15, 2020 | Recipes
Jackson Pollock? Nope, it’s food, not art. Well, actually, this dish is so pretty that you might call it art. And culinary artistry in surely in play here. This is a dish Suzi and I had for a non-traditional Christmas Dinner. No turkey for us that day. But Suzi could...
