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Peposo Toscano (Slow-Cooked Peppery Beef Stew from Tuscany)

This recipe, from my book Flavors of Tuscany (1998), comes from Dario Cecchini, the internationally famous butcher of Panzano, a village just off the highway through the heart of the Chianti country between…

April 27, 2019 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Waiter, bring me shad roe!

Shad Running in Spring Rivers We talk a lot about eating seasonally, but truth to tell, there’s not a whole lot of seasonal things left in the food world, as a visit to…

April 19, 2019 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Maine & the Mediterranean: Thoughts before a coastal winter storm

What should we have on hand, we asked, as the weatherman predicted disaster. Candles? Plenty of those left over from Christmas. Batteries? Yes, for all the different sizes of flashlights. Wood—there’s a towering…

January 22, 2019 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Mediterranean diet: Beans & Legumes

Take a look at the Mediterranean Diet pyramid and you’ll find beans and legumes (that’s just another name for beans) in a conspicuous place among foods to…

January 15, 2019 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Gazpacho–si señor!

Labor Day has come and gone but summer’s heat and humidity linger. What better excuse for a bowl of chilled gazpacho for lunch? Or dinner, or an…

September 6, 2018 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Shucky beans for a late summer lunch?

A treasure from the late summer garden: These striking beans, known variously as cranberry beans (for the cranberry-red striations of the pods), borlotti beans (their Italian name—they’re…

September 4, 2018 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Strawberries (Again?!?)

Yes, they come back every year, some years more prolifically than others. This has been an especially bountiful year here in Maine where I’m settled right now.…

July 1, 2018 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Salty Lemons

It’s a lemony time of year, these waning days of January when the air is chilly, the earth is covered with no longer fresh snow, and a…

January 30, 2018 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Extra-virgin for 2018: A healthy resolution

The best thing you can do for your health in 2018: get serious about the Mediterranean “diet” Rather than diet, though, I prefer to say the Mediterranean “way of eating,” because it…

January 7, 2018 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Med Diet? Easy-peasy and good for you too!

When I heard the latest news about the Mediterranean diet and its importance for good health outcomes, I will confess to a slightly ho-hum reaction. For the…

January 5, 2018 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
On the importance of a good knead

Most modern olive oil producers, no matter where they are in the world, emphasize the importance of a singular process for the production of high-quality oil. That process is best…

June 29, 2015 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Pasta/Pesto: Sicily Direct

Busiate al Pesto Trapanese When a Sicilian friend Gabriella Becchina took me a couple of years ago to Mulini del Ponte, a grist mill in the heart of Castelvetrano, her hometown in southwestern…

May 23, 2014 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins

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