I don’t remember when I had my first taste of toasted almonds mixed with plump golden raisins and coated with olive oil and crunchy salt, but I know it accompanied a glass of Amontillado. They were beautiful together, as so few things really are. The savory crunch
Read more →Salt and Pepper are breaking up. They’ve been together in our kitchens for too long. They have become such partners at the table that you would think they’d been officially married by some Higher Power. And although salt and pepper are essentially two separate ingredients with different
Read more →“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” Isak Dinesan Over the weekend I had the opportunity to visit the largest salt flats in Europe, second biggest in the world, located on the east coast of southern Italy at Margherita di Savoia in
Read more →You can’t open a magazine or newspaper these days without seeing an article about natural and organic foods. The focus on eating wholesome food runs the gamut from shopping at farmers markets to keeping chickens in the yard for eggs. It’s all about wholesome ingredients. Yet when
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