Far from my usual Mediterranean comfort zone, last night I cooked up a batch of Maine shrimp in an Indian curry sauce and served it over steamed rice for dinner. It was…
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Elsewhere in the world: food and travel
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On a recent trip to Istanbul, a glorious town for food-lovers, I discovered an old familiar friend on just about every meze table. That was muhammara, a sauce or dip made from…
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Here’s a photo I took a few years ago of the Saturday market in Siracusa, that wonderful town tucked into the southeast corner of Sicily. I’ll be visiting here again in a few…
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AmorOlio, the six-day olive oil seminar that I’ve been developing and growing over the last couple of years, just concluded its last session for 2013 and it was a resounding success. Like…
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Santiago de Chile, 4 March 2012: I spent several happy hours yesterday exploring two great markets in Santiago’s downtown—Mercado Central and La Vega, on opposite sides of the Mapocho, the river that runs…
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Saying goodbye to Sevilla last Friday evening was difficult—it’s such a beautiful old town, so full of vibrant street life, so teeming with history, that I think I’d like to stay forever,…
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Knafeh: Rich, buttery, cheesy, lightly crunchy, softly melting, sugar-drenched, achingly sweet, a sort of overwhelmingly opulent Middle Eastern cheesecake that makes New York-style cheesecake look like something invented in a Philadelphia Cream…
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So my friend said: “You have GOT to go to the Green Door. It’s the greatest pizza anywhere!” So today I finally did and it was a most unusual experience. In through…
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In Israel for a few days, I’m hearing a lot about “the new Israeli cuisine.” From my perspective, it seems firmly rooted in Middle Eastern antecedents, with a healthy dose of California…