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 →
After taking sister Erin’s sage advice and doing a three-parter on the cuisine of Japan, I’ve been bugged to do some others. First on the list is Morocco, whose food traditions are unlike any other on the face of the earth, much less in North Africa. Come away with me and sample the bounty!Read More →
Many, many TV and movie personalities have made ‘specials’ of one kind or another about Italy; more precisely, about breaking the code that would reveal for the rest of us who aren’t from that romantic land why it’s so unique, and such an icon of romance, history and food. Stanley Tucci is having a go, now…Read More →
Picture it… A beautiful Italian morning in 79 AD (now referred to as ‘CE’, or Current Era) in the city of Pompeii just across the Bay of Naples from the city of that same name. Folks hurrying to work, fisher folk coming in from their early morning routine on the water. Commerce perking along as it always had…Read More →