by Brian | Dec 27, 2017 | Recipes
In his cook-by-the-season book, Simple Nature, Alain Ducasse offers Ten Principles for great cuisine. Among those are: Cook and Eat Seasonally and Eat More Vegetables and Less Meat. It’s not all veggies, though, as this recipe from the Winter chapter shows. This is a...
by Brian | Oct 21, 2017 | Recipes
I love crab cakes and the very, very best are to be found in Baltimore. The best of the best? Faidley’s in Lexington Market. I was able to find a very authentic recipe for them Chesapeake Bay Cooking. Sometimes, I do an amendment or two. A little chili heat can...
by Brian | Aug 24, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
Today’s TBT Cookbook review covers The New American Cheese, a survey of the American cheese landscape in 2000. So, naturally, we need a TBT recipe rich in cheese. Here it is. The pairing of crab and cheese is classic and here the packaging, ala tart, makes it...
by Brian | Feb 1, 2017 | Recipes, Super Bowl
Yesterday I did a cookbook review of Fingerfood by Elsa Petersen-Schepelern. I mentioned three recipes that seem ideally posed for a Super Bowl Feast. This is one of them: different, bright and bursting with flavor. How can a crabcake be different? Well, this has...
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 time, I...
