by Brian | Nov 13, 2017 | Recipes
Eggplant. What cuisine popped through your mind? Greek, North African, Indian? Maybe Italian but not Pizza Italian. This idea comes from Dolce Vita Pizzeria Enoteca in Houston, Texas. Yes, it’s an American idea. Change your favorite home pizza. You can add the...
by Brian | Oct 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
The new cookbook Istanbul & Beyond is a magnificent culinary, and cultural and photographic tour, of Turkey. It’s beautiful to see the pictures of the food, the people and the incredible landscape of a vast country. Many Turkish recipes use ingredients we do here...
by Brian | Oct 23, 2017 | Recipes
When I saw this recipe, I knew it was just a matter of time until I enjoyed it. Suzi is a devoted fan of eggplant and of sweet potatoes. Here they are combined in a North African stew that has penetrating spice flavor. There is an ingredient here, ras el hanout, that...
by Brian | Jun 12, 2017 | Recipes
In his most enlightening new 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. This is not a vegetarian cookbook but the role of vegetables and fruits dominates....
by Brian | Apr 2, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I never ate eggplant until I was forty. My life was just not on a track that wandered through vegetables. Now I encounter eggplant in Italian and Chinese food weekly. As a kid, my Italian experience was limited to macaroni and cheese from Kraft. Our weekly take...
