An Elusive Treasure Becomes Rarer Still

Adapted from and article published in The New York Times: October 31, 2007 CORTONA, Italy THERE are never enough white truffles. Their rarity and their seductive, earthy aroma help drive epicures wild. But as the white truffle season starts this year in northern Italy and Croatia, some people in the business say they have never Read More
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THE WAY WE EAT; On Blueberry Hill

Adapted from Article published in The New York Times: August 17, 2008 Up on the mountain behind my house, the wild blueberries are ripe and prolific. It’s public land, part of the Maine state-park system, so the berries are free for the picking. In a half-hour or so, if I’m lucky, I can fill a Read More
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Winter Joy: Limoncello

Adapted from Article published in Zester Daily http://www.zesterdaily.com/drinking/401-winter-joy-limoncello February is far and away the dreariest month of the year in Italy. Yes, for incurable optimists, there’s a faint promise of spring in the air, but that promise is dashed over and over by chilly winds and unrelenting gray rain that too often turns to snow Read More
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In Praise of Spiders

Adapted from Article published in Zester Daily http://www.zesterdaily.com/cooking/447-in-praise-of-spiders There was a black iron skillet in my mother’s kitchen that she always called the spider. “Fetch me down that black iron spider,” she would say when she was getting ready to start on one of her famous dishes –tuna fish casserole, for instance, topped not with Read More
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The Shrimp Have Landed

Adapted from Article published in Zester Daily http://www.zesterdaily.com/cooking/379-maine-shrimp-in-season Maine fishermen are hauling in tons of the sweet, small Northeastern favorites. It’s shrimp season in Maine. In these coldest days of winter, small, sweet, tender Maine shrimp — aka Icelandic shrimp and Pandalus borealis — head south from the Arctic into the relatively warmer waters off Read More
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    May 20 - 226, 2012, Villa Campestri, Tuscany A Tuscan cooking course with Nancy Harmon Jenkins for details click HERE

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