Thanksgiving dinner in my family is not the time for experimentation. We have old favorites whose recipes we pull out because, after all, we make and eat this food only once a year. Turkey may be the star of the show, but side dishes, including Brussels sprouts, deserve some spotlight treatment too with preparations that […]
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An Authentic Succotash for Thanksgiving
November 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
That Thanksgiving belongs to New England goes without saying. Although there had been feasts giving thanks for the bounty of the land in the Virginia colony, in Spanish Florida and in British Canada, the federal holiday of Thanksgiving declared by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 traces its lineage to the 1621 harvest celebration of Wampanoag […]
How They Make Anchovies in France’s Languedoc
November 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Provence in the south of France has certainly gotten all the glory with its jet-setter reputation. After all it has the Riviera with Monte Carlo, St. Tropez and Cannes while its neighbor to the southwest Languedoc seems like a distant cousin. Most people probably can’t name any place in Languedoc. However, Languedoc offers some delights […]
What Beginning Cooks Don’t Know About Indian Dal
November 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The variety of dried legumes used in Indian cooking can become quite mind-boggling. When you are in an Indian market, you may find yourself walking back and forth in the aisle trying to figure out what’s what. When I was writing my book “Some Like It Hot: Spicy Favorites from the World’s Hot Zones,” I […]
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