Just wanted to give you guys a heads up about a cool new website called the Raw Spice Bar, that delivers fresh spices to your door and helps you use them in authentic international recipes. According to the website, this is what you get with each delivery: 3-4 freshly ground spice blends from one geography or … Continue reading Just Launched – Raw Spice Bar
On New Years Day, I went to the restaurant Heirloom, owned by 27 year old chef Clark Barlowe. It’s located in north west Charlotte, and housed in a building that looks like it might have been a Cracker Barrel in a previous life. Well, in a way that is fitting, since what we had at … Continue reading Heirloom Restaurant
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy Chanukah, and share with you a picture of my pinterest-fueled first night treats. I made marshmallow hershey kiss dreidels that came out very cute. I also found a recipe in a fantastic Jewish cookbook called Gefilte Variations by Jayne Cohen, for Fish in Potato Latke Crust with Horseradish … Continue reading Happy Chanukah!
I recently got my hands on a new book called The Global Bakery: Amazing cakes from the world’s kitchens by Anna Weston. The book runs the gamut from simple to elaborate cakes, and is divided into different regions of the world. I really enjoyed taking the world tour of cakes, and I think that the … Continue reading The Global Bakery
Hi! I am resurfacing after a long hiatus in which, among other things, I moved cross country. I am now a North Carolinian! Unfortunately, my kitchen for the last few months has consisted of a temperamental hot plate and a toaster oven, while we remodel the kitchen of our new home, and this has also … Continue reading Chickpeas for your chickpea
Movie Review: Les saveurs du palais (Haute Cuisine in English) This charming movie is based on the true story of a woman who served as personal chef to the French president Francois Mitterrand. As Danièle Laborie arrives at the Elysee palace accompanied by suited men in a limousine, she thinks there must be some mistake. … Continue reading La cuisine du souvenir
There are certain things that you love to eat as a kid and never stop loving. This is one for me. If I could, I would eat a cinnamon pretzel every day. To me, it has everything you need to feel good: warm bread, cinnamon sugar, and butter. A warm pretzel makes a great breakfast … Continue reading Auntie Char’s Cinnamon Soft Pretzel
I want to share a family-style dish that you may not think of as Japanese but it is very popular in Japan, especially among young people. It’s the Japanese version of a curry, and you can easily find packaged squares of curry roux that are really a great little weeknight secret. Just look in the … Continue reading Instant Curry
When I arrived at Northwestern University to do my graduate work, I had relatively little knowledge or experience of North Africa. Within a few short years, this changed as I studied the French-language literature of the region with a prominent specialist who happened to be teaching there, gained a close friend who was raised in … Continue reading Memories of Morocco
Today I want to share something that I made for my son’s birthday party and that turned out to be a big hit. Homemade goldfish crackers! Truth be told, I have never been a great lover of classic goldfish crackers, but it occurred to me that they would be a really fun food to recreate … Continue reading Goldfish
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