by Susanna Gaertner | Sep 3, 2019 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
In this heat, it’s time to round up some terrific salads, by which I mean hearty ones that are more than lettuce leaves with dressing. Pasta salads are of course a favorite but today I’m going to replace the pasta with couscous, according to Food.com, “a...
by Susanna Gaertner | Jul 18, 2019 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
A perennial favorite, this refreshing veggie/fruit salad is perfect for indoor and outdoor meals during the hottest days of summer. Jicama is a tuberous root packed with potassium, rich in fiber and vitamin C, its flavor a crunchy cross between an apple and a water...
by Lucy Gordan | Jun 1, 2019 | Food, Food blog
Born in suburban New Jersey, Scott Wiener has no Italian blood. His ancestry is Jewish Russian and Polish. Yet from an early age pizza became Scott’s favorite food. And now, for the past eleven years, since April 27, 2008 to be exact, this Neapolitan specialty has...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 28, 2019 | Food, Food blog
The Margherita family built the Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda (Matera) during 1892. This small town in Basilicata was the birthplace of Agostino Coppola (1883-1964), the grandfather of the American movie-director, Francis Ford Coppola. Agostino always referred to...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 4, 2019 | Food, Food blog
“Because of its history of regional political division,” Wikipedia tells us, “Italy specializes in many different kinds of bread, reflecting its great regional variation and widely different bread-making recipes and traditions. In general rolls are typical of the...
by Susanna Gaertner | Jan 3, 2019 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
Trifecta of winter vegetables to keep you warm inside Hearty and healthy and perfect for the long cold spells ahead, this earthy, budget-friendly soup should satisfy just about everyone. Ingredient quantities are very loosely measured here…just how big is a...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 7, 2018 | Food, Food blog
Everyone would almost certainly agree that Italy’s cuisine is regional not national. The origins of its various dishes depend on who the regions’ rulers were before the Unification of Italy in 1870 and on their “KM. 0” ingredients. For examples, Austria in Friuli...
by Lucy Gordan | Aug 17, 2018 | Food, Food blog
Flynn McGarry, a long-limbed slim strawberry blond with freckles and Elvis Presley-haircut without the grease, was born in Malibu, California, on November 25, 1999. He knew from age ten that he wanted to be a chef. Two years later he launched “Eureka!”, a...
by Lucy Gordan | Jun 15, 2018 | Food, Food blog
Due to all the clamor and ink spilt soon after Pope Francis’ election because of his pre-papacy simple lifestyle and taste in food while Archbishop of Buenos Aires, which he continued to prefer as Pope, I became curious about what the popes before him ate. I was...
by Lucy Gordan | Mar 18, 2018 | Food, Food blog
Since the 1700s for Northern Europeans on the “Grand Tour” all roads have led to Rome. They entered the Eternal City through the Porta del Popolo, a gate in the ancient Aurelian Walls built by Pope Sixtus IV for the Jubilee Year 1475, and took lodgings in and around...
by Connie Pearson | Feb 22, 2018 | Food, Food blog
Andy Marshall, best known for all of the Puckett’s locations in and around Nashville, Tennessee, has scored a restaurant trifecta with the opening of Deacon’s New South at the intersection of 4th Avenue North and Church Street. First, the location is...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 15, 2017 | Food, Food blog
I’ve always loved to travel, but still dread each departure when it involves an airport. Even before all the necessary security, airports already meant endless lines at check-in and passport control, crowds pushing in all directions, noise, confusion, and above all...
