Originally posted on 03/18/2010 for Huffington Post A New Year’s Resolution of Biblical Proportions In the beginning, the Bible says, God created the heaven and the earth. And it was good. Really good. Earth’s natural bounty blew us away — lavish forests teeming with wildlife, fertile soil, clear skies, clean, flowing water and all of it…
Pantescan Pasta With Capers, Olives and Tomatoes
May is International Mediterranean Diet Month – end it with a splash. The Mediterranean Diet Gets A Bigger Splash Originally posted on 05/16/2016 for Huffington Post Pantelleria has been discovered. This sleepy Sicilian island is suddenly hot thanks to A Bigger Splash. But Pantelleria was here long before Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes. It’s an ancient…
Viet Noodles With Fresh Herbs or a Sort of Bun
Originally posted on 03/11/2013 for Huffington Post Who Grows Our Food is an occasional Meatless Monday series taking a close look at some of the people, so often unsung, who give us the food on our plates. Who Grows Our Food: Miami GROW Along the grey knot of expressway engirding Miami International Airport, you’ll find row…
Pasta with Pesto di Trapani
Originally posted on 10/12/2015 for the Huffington Post Moving Mountains — Reducing Waste With “The Kitchen Ecosystem” We waste a mountain of food in this country, institutionally and individually. The Obama administration has pledged to cut food waste in half. Good for the government, but what about you? Given the magnitude of the problem, how…
Asian Rice Noodles With Chili, Mint and Lime
Posted originally on 09/03/2009 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Mint Condition Two weeks back, a friend and I were discussing fresh mint with the passion of true believers. This was made trickier by the fact we do not share a common language. But we bond over many things including an abiding appreciation of mint’s underrated…
Mon Petit Chou
The weekend a friend stopped breastfeeding, she and her husband celebrated by taking a cruise. They relaxed, they laughed, and because she could, they had a few drinks. All should have been well. But her breasts didn’t get the memo about not breastfeeding order and kept producing milk, as they will, thus becoming enormous and…
Unintended Consequences Cauliflower Pasta
I almost failed high school chemistry because I had a sixth-period class, the last of the day, and our instructor was an alcoholic. In her sozzled mind, she’d already taught us the same lesson five times that day and she was crazed and furious because we hadn’t nailed it yet. Also, there was the time…
The (Spaghetti) Wrestler
While in New York last week, I discovered spaghetti wrestling. Silly me, at first I thought they were two separate entities — spaghetti, as in something you eat and wrestling, as in something you do. Spaghetti wrestling offers both. You are, no doubt, more worldly than I and already know this sport of sorts involves…
When Life Offers You Lemons
With the stock market in freefall and joblessness at a 25-year high, it helps to remember attitude is everything. If you’re going to eat humble pie, make it tasty. Some of our most exciting culinary times have grown from poor soil. During the worst of food shortages and ration cards, M.F.K. Fisher taught us How…
