The other day at my favorite local butcher, Bleecker & Greer in Rockport, Maine https://www.mainemeat.com, I spotted a freezer tray full of chunks of oxtail and immediately grabbed it to add…
cucina toscana
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It was a pleasure to see Julia Moskin delve deeply into olive oil in a recent New York Times article (https://tinyurl.com/y4bgq2ph) Extra-virgin olive oil is such a unique ingredient, so important…
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Tomato Time! Late summer cries out for luscious ripe tomatoes, warm from the garden sun, fresh from the farmer’s market, at every meal, every eating opportunity, throughout the day. I keep a bowl…
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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…
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All by myself for a week in the Tuscan farmhouse kitchen, I decided to make a nice mess of peas Roman style, which you do by gently stewing some chopped onion and…
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I lived in Cyprus off and on in the early ‘70s before the Turkish invasion that split the island into two irreconcilable political entities, one Turkish, one Greek. Our village, on the…
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