My friend Jacob is quite the jet-setter, so when he came to Alaska for Christmas one year, he came to hibernate and reboot. For his visit, our list of to-do’s...
It was my dear longtime friend Jacob who first introduced me to the sheer perfection that is a jalapeño margarita one summer evening in San Diego’s historic Balboa Park. He...
Frozen foods were given a boost of popularity in the 1950s when refrigerators with freezers became affordable enough for many households to have in-house, especially when Swanson introduced the frozen...
Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was a bestseller when it was released in the 1960s. One of her most famous recipes was the sophisticated French dish Beef...
Blue cheese, sweet figs, and cured ham are a stellar combination. If your cheese is very cold, make it easier to spread by softening it in the microwave for 5...
God help us if we ever have to do without olive salad, a tangy veggie confetti that perks up everything it graces. Though it’s hard to beat the crunchy Italian-sandwich...
If you ask me, pickles are among the most amazing foods that you can make at home. The process turns ordinary vegetables into something extraordinarily delicious, while preserving them, too....
These tomatoes are nearly always in my refrigerator. Packed in a “sauce” of escaped juices and the quality olive oil in which they were cooked, these sweet tomatoes work on...