Earlier today, we brought you an exposé on Gochujang – a unique, versatile Korean hot pepper condiment. Now, we’re spotlighting another pepper sauce/dip: Muhammarah. Like it’s Asian cousin, this Middle Eastern one deserves wider exposure!Read More →
We hear, at regular intervals, from pro cooks, celeb chefs and food bloggers, that Olive Oil is hands down the best oil for us to use in all applications. But most of us are in a quandry about which grade of Olive Oil to use. And why have ‘grades’ inRead More →
I don’t know what it is about Pizza… My post idea for today started as a recent upsurge in Pizza ‘innovation’ and crossovers, etc. But it quickly turned into a much larger and wider investigation probing the psychology of the ‘Universal Pie’…Read More →
We occasionally team up stories with each other in one post when they have something in common. This week, it’s a trio of new studies on the Mediterranean Diet which have revealed further benefits in widely separated parts of the diet and nutrition spectrum…Read More →
I kind of let the finer points of Italian dining culture slip by me until I was in my 40s. That was before I became formally interested in food and cooking. And I thought spaghetti and meatballs, veal scallopini, Chef Boyardee ravioli, and pizza were about the extent of it…Read More →
My bogus product and silly menu item detectors went ‘Boinnng!’ simultaneously when I read the Starbuck’s news release about its latest idea: A spoonful of olive oil helps the coffee go down. But it’s backed by historical and medical rationales…Read More →
So… You’ve watched a few movies where the hero walks into the tent-palace of a Saudi sheik who serves up a huge feast of roasted meats stacked on mammoth platters of savoury rice, and you think you know all about Saudi Arabian food. Think again! There’s much more to it than that…Read More →
If you look at a traditional map of North Africa, Libya looks pretty desolate: Not many main roads showing and not many major cities. “Well,” you reason. “It is in the middle the Sahara Desert…” And you may not bother to look closer. But it’s an ancient and mysterious land that deserves our attention…Read More →