With recipes for Pork Medallions and Plantains Bananas Foster Plantain and Lentil Stew Banana Ice Cream with Bourbon Handling bananas isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, even within the produce business. As a matter of fact, for every 100 people working in produce, maybe two are in bananas. Very few people …
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, …
Though it didn’t happen very often, when my brothers, my sister or I didn’t clean our plates at dinner, Dad would threaten to lock us in the basement and feed us nothing but raw onions. Needless to say, raw onions were not at the top of our list of favorite …
Rhubarb, like quince, isn’t on most people’s culinary radar unless they are fans of Prairie Home Companion where Garrison Keiler sings about Bebopareebop Rhubarb Pie. And describing a fight as a rhubarb (usually the emptying of benches at a baseball game) is about as old fashioned as home run hitters …
It’s time for major snacking as the NCAA men’s and women’s basketballtournaments (aka March Madness) begin. When I was food editor of the San Jose Mercury News, I often tied to match the foods for big sporting events to the teams participating or the cities in which the games were …
They’re at it again! In the first installment of what one might call its “back to nature” series, the NY Times wrote about a couple in New York who were on a yearlong quest to live with almost no carbon footprint by eating only locally grown food, using no carbon-fueled …