Victory Gardens have long been an American symbol of what the Spanish call cocina povera (peasant cookery). Call it conscious cuisine or conscious cookery — it’s making clever use of humble ingredients and is a keeper of a kitchen skill that will likely benefit us all in these interesting times amid Coronavirus quarantines and social…
What’s your favorite food saving tip?
Reduce food waste and increase yum by embracing — and eatint — imperfection. Instead of discarding summer produce like slightly bruised peaches or past-their-peak berries, use them in a fruit crumble or pudding or freeze them for winter, when summer feels like a distant memory. For more food saving tips, check out savethefood.com. What’s your…
Luck of the Irish
Some people have a gift for tapping in to the positive energy of the universe. They sip serendipity, they go with the flow, they are the flow. I am not one of them. Usually. However, even I lucked out. Yesterday, St. Patrick’s Day, I find myself on Vegan Street . This has everything to do…
Dinner at my house.
Fri. Jan 22nd 7:00PM (Limited Seating – only 5 seats left ) “Fueling a Champion” Dinner with Ellen Kanner: Join me for the next EatWith meal. You can buy your ticket HERE. This upcoming EatWith get together is a special pre-Miami Marathon dinner, Asian-inspired and plant-based to fuel you right. Read more about my previous…
Dogged
Oh, dear. This is not the post I wanted to write. At all. But I would be pulling a major punch if I didn’t mark the death of Darcy, our beloved dog. She was fifteen and a half, so, okay, not a puppy, not spry by a long shot even when I took this picture…
Killer Chocolate
I’m not saying it’s a good idea. I’m just saying it exists.
A Taste of Honey
Yesterday, our back yard was hectic with bees, zipping back and forth in the sunlight, turning the air golden and making me briefly and fizzingly optimistic. Bees are indicative of a healthy ecosystem. They provide plant pollination, fertilizing up to a third of the crops we eat. When you look at it that way, they’re…
Starving Artists
This is not ANOTHER recently discovered Shakespeare portrait, this is fab Frenchman Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), who said, “To eat is a necessity but to eat intelligently is an art.” Art is not always easy to pull off, especially when you’re hungry. That’s because your stomach has its own brain. The technical term…
Dinner, Slowly
This was not my date at last night’s Slow Food Miami’s dinner at Creek 28. This is a Galapagos Tortoise and for the sake the of this post, a visual pun — slow, get it? Of course you do, you clever soul. None of us were tortoises but many of us were strangers when the…
