What is Beaujolais Nouveau and why all the fuss? First let’s talk about non-Nouveau or “regular” Beaujolais. Beaujolais is a light and fruity red wine made from the Gamay grape, technically Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc, though a small amount of chardonnay-based white Beaujolais Blanc is produced. Most Beaujolais is …
Veal Vincenzo was a popular dish on the menu of a restaurant I operated in Philadelphia a number of years ago. When a customer called to ask if she could cook it at home by substituting vegetable oil for butter, eliminating the cream and changing the shallots to onions, I …
The Han Dynasty in China lasted for four centuries. The Han Dynasty restaurant chain (named for its founder, Han Chiang) may not last that long, but with eight locations in 10 years and another in the works, it may keep going for some time. The Manayunk outpost, in an historic …
When it comes to the temperature of what they eat, Americans like their hot food hot and cold food cold. But Italians aren’t so fussy. No one beats the Italians for putting out an endless variety of tantalizing dishes that achieve their ultimate intensity of flavor at room temperature Italians …
There is no fruit or vegetable I look forward to more in summer than tomatoes. That’s because I refuse to eat those pink tennis balls we get the rest of the year, or those bright but flavorless (and frightfully expensive) hothouse tomatoes from Holland. And with global warming, tomato season …
Black pepper has always played second banana to its tablemate, salt, the most widely used seasoning. number two black pepper, has pretty much been available in basic black, whereas salt has given us as many choices as there are cable channels from pink Murray River salt from Australia to fleurs …