Caviar Gifts How to Buy, Serve and Enjoy Caviar We don’t miss much about the old Soviet Union. Caviar lovers, however, yearn for the Soviet’s efficient management of the caviar industry it shared with Iran. While Iran’s caviar commerce remained relatively stable over the two decades following the Soviet Union’s …
The South, from Virginia to Texas, Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico, has culinary traditions as deeply rooted as any other part of the country. And that includes holiday dishes. Some holiday foods were hard to get or expensive—like a piece of citrus put in a Christmas stocking—that historically would …
Last spring I traveled to the Finger Lakes region of New York researching a cover story on beef I wrote for the September 30 issue of Wine Spectator. (Yes, they do raise cattle there!). On way to the farm of Jeff Rosenkrans (they call them cattle farms, not ranches in …
Recipe: Chestnut and Celery Root Soup How to Get Chestnuts Online We think of chestnuts as a quintessential American holiday food, but chestnut flour was made many centuries ago by ancient Greeks, and later by the Romans, who used chestnut meal in place of cornmeal to make polenta. Wild chestnuts …
When it comes to pairing wines with holiday foods, Thanksgiving presents the ultimate challenge. The problem is not the turkey but everything else that goes with it. For example, Dorothy Gaither and John Brecher, former wine columnists for the Wall Street Journal, wrote on more than one occasion that older …
With Recipes For: Pumpkin Pecan Torte Pumpkin Ravioli with Parmesan-Sage Cream Pumpkin Risotto Every October for the past 32 years, the hills of Half Moon Bay, California come alive with the color of orange, a sea of over 3,000 tons of pumpkins. Pumpkin mania transforms this quaint coastal town into …