by Connie Pearson | May 24, 2017 | Food, Food blog
Executive Chef and General Manager Rob McDaniel and the decision-makers of Russell Lands on Lake Martin combined to design a restaurant that is luring diners off the beaten path who come for a visual as well as a culinary feast. Located at 12 Benson Mill Road in...
by Susanna Gaertner | May 14, 2017 | Food, Food blog
Flavor enhancement with spices rather than salt: these recipe hacks should allow you and your family to drastically reduce sodium intake while pleasing the taste buds with newer, sharper, spicier delights. Important thing—I know I’ve said this before—is to use...
by Lucy Gordan | May 13, 2017 | Food, Food blog
The 2017 red Michelin guide for Italy includes 74 restaurants in Rome. The top one, as mentioned in my last month’s article is Heinz Beck’s “La Pergola” with 3 stars; another is Anthony Genovese’s “Il Pagliacco” with 2 stars at Via dei Banchi Vecchi 129a, just across...
by Susanna Gaertner | May 7, 2017 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
We’re always on the prowl for variations on the classic pasta primavera, that culinary catch-all for vegetables in sauces that marry well with pasta. I’ve developed this one for its speed of prep while presenting a complex flavor profile…it’s...
by Lucy Gordan | Apr 25, 2017 | Food, Food blog
Most cities around the world count numerous skyscrapers and many of these hugely tall buildings house restaurants with panoramic views on their top floors. Rome, because of its underground rivers, has no skyscrapers, but nonetheless counts numerous rooftop...
by Aimee Pellet | Mar 27, 2017 | Food, Food blog
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, has an entire culture built around fabulous dining. The problem, however, can be hunting down unique dining establishments without being directed to crowded, touristy restaurants. Online reviews can be helpful, but of course those are...
by Susanna Gaertner | Mar 5, 2017 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
As the child of frugal German immigrants, I ate a lot of meatloaf as a child, only we called it falscher Hase, literally, fake rabbit. After WWII, when meat rations were still in effect, German housewives would mix up whatever meaty scraps they had, add lots of...
by Susanna Gaertner | Feb 6, 2017 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
As defined by Rachel Ray, a stoup comes in somewhere between a soup and a stew in consistency…and that is what we have with this simple-to-assemble one pot wonder. For the vegetable you can use any leafy green or even a combination of several: kale is...
by Suzanne Ball | Jan 25, 2017 | Food, Food blog
“So… Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular ice-cream cone, times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn horns.” (Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato) Gelato. Just thinking about it causes me to break out in...
by Lucy Gordan | Jan 22, 2017 | Food, Food blog
Just over two weeks after the controversial opening of a McDonald’s in a Vatican-owned building just outside St. Peter’s Square, on January 16th the popular fast food chain started to distribute some 1,000 free meals to the homeless from here. Ironically, this “act of...
by Lucy Gordan | Jan 11, 2017 | Food, Food blog
I’m culture editor of the monthly print magazine Inside the Vatican. In the May 2015 issue I published an interview with Monsignor Pasquale Iacobone, the Holy See’s Special Delegate for “Expo”, the World’s Fair with a food theme hosted in Milan from May 1 to October...
by Susanna Gaertner | Dec 4, 2016 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
Broccoli and cauliflower make fine bedfellows when covered with this exceptional sauce, which can also be used to spice up other vegetables ordinarily labeled bland or boring. Quantities do not need to be exact…start with what’s written here and...
