As Hurricane Florence made landfall in the Carolinas, I contacted Cook for Good’s Linda Watson and urged her to stay safe. Her My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes guest post could wait for a better time. Linda came through anyway, despite rising flood waters, her local environmental advisory board meeting and hosting a screening of…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Vegan Richa
These are rough days for the America I value and fight for, the one of compassion, inclusion and acceptance. We can — and must — resist and persist but then we have to refresh and nourish before going back into the fray. That’s why on the day Trump buddied up to Putin and aimed to…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Hetty McKinnon
Hetty McKinnon and I haven’t met yet but we’ve bonded, whether she knows it or not. We’re salad sisters, united in the belief that salad is so much more than lettuce. Salad is an opportunity to give each season’s fresh vegetables and fruits the love they deserve, to enhance them with a defining hint of acidity…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: The Immigrant Cookbook
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: The Immigrant Cookbook My husband and I live next door to Spaniards on one side, Jordanians on the other, across the street from Jamaicans, Venezuelans and Swiss and down the block from an Asian family and a gay couple. This to me is what America is. So is The Immigrant…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes: Pat Tanumihardja
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Pat Tanumihardja I fell in love with Pat Tanumihardja with the release of her first book, The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook. Born and raised in Indonesia, Pat definitely has the Asia thing down, but never knew her grandmothers. Because of that, she was drawn to traditional Asian cookery, connecting to her…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Victoria Moran
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Victoria Moran Once upon a time, Victoria Moran believed she was weird. Her mother agreed. “We used to think there was something wrong with you — doing that yoga and eating that tofu.” Creative, charismatic and glamorous, Victoria (PETA’s sexiest vegan over 50) isn’t weird, she’s vegan, and has been…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Lidia Bastianich
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Lidia Bastianich There was a time when Lidia Bastianich, James Beard Award-winner, bestselling cookbook author, Emmy Award-winning star of Lidia’s Italian Table, restauranteur and buddy to Mario Batali, had a brief fling with boxed cake mix. She was a girl when she came to New York with her family…
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby Don’t these two look like your besties, the couple you want to hang with? Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby are all that, plus the duo who made vegan fine dining a thing with Vedge, their landmark Philadelphia restaurant. Then they took it to the…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes — Your Face Here
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes — Your Face Here I had big plans for this month’s My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes. Hurricane Irma changed all that. Irma changed a lot of things for a lot of people. So did Maria and Harvey and the Mexico City earthquake and flooding and monsoons in Southeast…
My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipe: Michael Solomonov
MY FAVORITE PEOPLE, MY FAVORITE RECIPES: Michael Solomonov My Favorite People, My Favorite Recipes proudly welcomes Michael Solomonov, winner of this year’s James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef. At the Miami opening of Dizengoff, despite exhaustion, he shared his famous hummus recipe and why he’s so passionate about Israeli cuisine (which, btw, honey, is about sooooo…
