It’s the time of year when I sit at my desk with a bowl of variegated cherry tomatoes at my side. As I ponder the text in front of me, my hand…
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Savory Pie
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It’s the simplest, most basic of foods, the one cooks turn to when there’s nothing to eat in the house—because there’s almost always an egg or two in the pantry, ready to…
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The menu was obvious. It had to be Irish. The book group, which meets sporadically and has no program beyond reading what we agree is interesting, had decided to take up A Portrait…
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It’s artichoke season in Tuscany. Markets are full of these wonderfully weird-looking vegetables which come in half a dozen different varieties, ranging from big fat round globe artichokes, very similar to what…
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“This,” declared Salvatore Denaro to a room full of attentive cooking students, “is the most generous plant in the entire vegetable garden.” He held aloft a bushy stalk of cavolo nero, a…