Nduja — looks like a typo, tastes like a wow. Nduja is a luscious Italian pate of Calabrian chili, fennel, garlic, and, alas, pork. But not here. My vegan nduja recipe, inspired by a version at Giorgio Rapicavoli’s Luca hits all the right flavor notes. It has the same gutsy spices, but no pig. Fresh…
Not Your Nonna’s Pasta for World Pasta Day
Today is World Pasta Day, created by the Italians to celebrate the food the whole world loves. How do you pasta? For me, pasta without a drizzle of olive oil for silkiness and gilding seems lonely, It’s probably nothing your nonna would approve of, either. You don’t want to piss off your nonna. I’m stingy…
Fun with Bún – Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad
Forget cinnamon buns and (plant-based) burger buns. This is about Vietnamese bún, a refreshing rice noodle bowl to beat the summer heat. It’s madly versatile, relying on fresh vegetables and fresh herbs by the handful. so make the most of local summer produce. Asian rice noodles, vegetables and herbs are tossed with nuac cham, Vietnamese…
Sexy Summer Salads and The Chef’s Garden
Green, garlicky ramps, luscious, earthy morels, and delicate, herbaceous fiddlehead ferns sing of spring. But Miami produce they ain’t. This goodness comes from The Chef’s Garden, one of three fabulous sponsors of this Wednesday’s Sexy Summer Salads class with Chef Taffy Elrod and me. Photo by Yossey Arefi and Michelle Demuth-Bibb Chef Elrod and…
Making Every Day Earth Day
This Thursday is Earth Day, that time of year when we remember, oh, yeah, gotta do something about the planet. Here’s an easy answer – eat plants. Some of the most ardent plant-based people I know got scared straight — health issues or having the veil of factory farming ripped away. Every reason to eat…
Just Add Water Part 2 – Pasta Water | Conscious Cookery Day 5
When Americans cook pasta, most overlook the magic that’s left behind from cooking — pasta water. In Italy, as the country prepared for coronavirus lockdown, people hit the markets and grabbed boxes of pasta. In the UK, pasta sales almost doubled. Here, pasta sales have gone up an unprecedented 400 percent. Forget March Madness. We’re…
Arugula Pasta with Salsa Cruda
Posted originally on 07/19/2010 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Home Field Advantage Ben Hewitt is the author of The Town Food Saved and a farmer in Cabot, Vermont, population 1,000. I’m a food writer and sustainable food advocate in Miami, Florida, population 2.5 million. Neither of us, given our chosen professions, are exactly raking it…
