Many people still have trouble cooking plain long grain rice, let alone risotto. And risotto in a hurry? “Fuggedaboudit,” as Tony Soprano might say. But you can make risotto in about 20 minutes any night of the week. In case you’ve been on another culinary planet for the past decade …
Superbowl Sunday will soon be upon us and it’s time for major snacking while we watch the big game. When I was food editor of the San Jose Mercury News, I often tied the foods for the Super Bowl to the teams participating or the cities in which the games …
Julia Child once described coq au vin as “probably the most famous of all French chicken dishes, certainly one of the most delicious.” But according to legend, it was invented by an Italian. Well, sort of. While Julius Caesar was conquering Gaul, the locals sent him an old rooster with …
I can’t think of a single restaurant dish that is more bastardized than Caesar salad. Romaine lettuce gets replaced with radicchio, curly endive, frisee, and arugula. (One chef used all four.) Croutons have been made with polenta, olive bread, English muffins, even grits. Other ingredients have included capers, cucumbers, tomatoes, …