In North Africa salads of all kinds are a favorite dish, served as part of a meze table, called qimiyya in Algeria, or as an accompaniment to grilled meats. This recipe from Algeria is simply called salāṭat bisbas, fennel salad. Although I love raw fennel which makes both a great dipping implement and sliced thin for […]
Summer Salad from French Catalonia
August 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Hot summer days demand cool salads and one couldn’t do better than the one I first encountered in the village of Collioure in southern France. There I had a salade Collioure, Collioure being a small French Catalan fishing village on the Côte Vermeille, the coastal Mediterranean of the French province of Roussillon which is considered […]
Summertime Raw Sauce for Pasta
August 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A delightful way to prepare pasta for a hot summer day is to toss it with a raw sauce or what the Italians call a salsa cruda. Summers can be too hot for full-fledged piping hot food so a raw sauce can come into play. It is exactly what it sounds like, a melange of […]
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