When fire and water mix.

Eons ago, March 2010, an idea was born while sailing on the Caribbean. Six of us fish-out-of-water friends were aboard a rather fancy boat, which was an unfathomably generous birthday gift from my sister and her husband – they are keepers. On [...]

Have you ever had a really special cooking class?

It was a Sunday, a week or two ago, and six of us were chopping garlic in Martha Rose Shulman’s home kitchen, while she shared new ideas for leafy greens and her co-instructor, Clifford Wright, Mediterranean food historian and cookbook author, offered [...]

If you’re a food enthusiast like me and even if you’re not but you have been anywhere in the lifestyle news spectrum lately – like the second hour of the Today Show – you most likely have heard the lectures on family dining including that from a new book The [...]

No props nor puntastic jokes nor freakish eyebrows needed here.  With the time it takes you to cut up this salad – a salad that is asbig on stage presence as it is on nutrients crunch and crunch – you’ll be snickering all the way to your easy chair.

I was inspired [...]