Cover Stories

Classic. After all, who’s going to suspect a lowly food blogger of being a top Field Op? If the cover story’s any good, and this one most definitely is, a promotion to Station Chief won’t be far behind. Really, it’s just a matter of… Wait, not that particular cover story? Yikes… Then forget you read…

The First Word

When a recipe launches its title with “savory,” a warm, comfortable, velvety meal is sure to await those gathered around the dinner table. Then, when the rest of the title unfurls an equally captivating description, how can the evening resist immortality? Why would it when Savory Bread Pudding with Mushrooms & Leeks is finishing up…

What a Country!

Home to hundreds of millions, it has attracted immigrants from the world over. The republic spans the continent, and a mighty river bisects it. Within its borders one finds teeming cities and vast wildernesses. This description applies not just to what is, perhaps, the expected subject, but also to Brazil, its vast friend down the…

Thursday, Simplified

Certainly, Thanksgiving’s upcoming feast (this Thursday, here in the US) looms large, in many senses. Traditionally, not only is the meal itself outsized, but guests arrive by the houseful. The banquet is meant to astound them, and this adds to the extravagance. A happy, cheerful extravagance in most cases, but quite the production nonetheless. What…

Cooler with More Coats

Yep, even in June. If you want the juiciest Chinese barbecue pork (char siu) with the most intensely flavorful glaze, be sure to dose it repeatedly with vibrant crimson lacquer. Both during cooking, and after. If so, prepare for delight: Today’s preparation is from the RecipeTin Eats website, and as scrumptious as char siu is,…

Ditch the Sticks?

Generally speaking, the Japanese are well-mannered, and they’re most enthusiastic about dining’s refined rituals. (Actually, that can be said, with minor qualifications, of many peoples.) Anyway, it’s not too often a Japan-forward company will advise diners to put down their chopsticks and to eat with their fingers. Yet, that’s precisely what Toiro, a company specializing…

Hike an Alp or Two

When Austrians want to journey up one side of a mountain and down the other, or to fortify those who will, they prepare an encouraging one-skillet meal replete with what’s necessary for the day’s exertions.   Thus, they invented Tiroler Gröstl, a stamina-building combination of diced potatoes, onion and bacon, traditionally topped with a lightly…

A Plate Full of Ghana

It all comes together this week, as one plate holds everything you’d need for a full meal, from meat, to potatoes, to vegetables.  Wrapping the total package in style is a recipe Fine Cooking offered in its April/May 2019 release, Crispy Peanut-Chile Chicken with Sweet Potatoes. The preparation is inspired by Ghana’s affinity for combining…

How Did This Happen?

Today’s creation requires little elaboration, as it’s a savory herbed pancake covered in a delicious mixture of mushrooms sautéed with leeks, then topped with grated Parmigiano Reggiano and lemon zest.  Sound good?  It is, clearly so, yet things become murky when it comes to the name, Dutch Baby.  Wait…what? All right, here are details.  A…