This chicory and potato salad with dolcelatte is one of those dishes where I’m not quite sure if it works or not. I loved it, my Wife hated it. So why not try it and let me know what you think?
The weather this past week has been fantastic, just right for experimenting with [...]
In "Change We Can Stomach," Blue Hill's Dan Barber writes on how a worldwide spike in food prices should lead to policies that "look toward the future," favoring small, diversified farms for improving food security, resource conservation, and growing more...
Barry Schuler may know a thing or two about running multi-billion dollar technology companies, but what he really wants to talk about, given the chance, is food and wine. The former CEO of AOL, Schuler often gets credited along with Steve Case (who preceded Schuler as CEO) for the company's success in the late Nineties. But while his colleagues and most of America's top technology executives were returning home at the end of their long days to comfortable suburbs near major metropolitan areas,...
Notice how I haven't been writing here much? Yeah sorry about that. Trying to have a personal life (Hi L.), combined with consulting and travel have really made "The Scotch Blog" a red headed step-child. It may be surprising to some of you, but The Scotch Blog is a side-line of a side-line - and NOT my primary focus in life. ANYWAY, I wanted to give a shout out to a great charity "Save Our...
I feel like I've been playing catch-up for over a month with so much to blog about and no time to do it. So, as has often become my custom when I'm on information overload to blog about, we're just...
Reddale, Carola, Butte, Cranberry, Russian Banana Fingerling, and All-Blue--they are in! Potatoes, of course. Glorious tubers orginating in the South American Andes and now growing worldwide. Our intrepid farmers in Poland, Maine not only planted them in recent days but...
Mama Vamp stopped by for the Mother's Day weekend holiday. The highlight? Delivery Chinese and introducing my mother to "The Devil Wears Prada" on-demand. The next Mama Vamp plan? Her June birthday. I've already secured a reservation at Philadelphia's Osteria,...
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Three breakfast treats using apricots.
How to cook a whole fish.
Bake Me A Wish is sending cakes to troops overseas.
Kids learn how to cook in a South Boston kitchen.
Restaurant reviews: Flapjacks, Grezzo, and Center House of Pizza.
This week's recipes: Cheese Biscuits, Buttermilk Pancakes, Plumped Ginger-Caramel Shrimp, French Toast with Lemony Cream Cheese and Warm Rhubarb Jam, Sea...
Currently: Heading out of town for a week-long vacation. In my absence, guest editor Melissa McCart will taking the helm and serving up a steady stream of appetizers.
Ever since he started buying whole animals, Willis Loughhead, the new executive chef at Country, has been turning out some top-flight charcuterie, as well several dishes that incorporate offal. Loughhead gets his meat from Fleisher's Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Rhinebeck, N.Y. As you can see here, hes wasted no time curing meats. Hanging in the wine cellar at Countrys Dining Room are, from left to right, lamb pancetta, pork pancetta, house-cured pigss leg prosciutto style, house-cur...
Filed under: Teas, Southern States, America, Guilty Pleasures AOL Food has brewed up an iced tea-stravaganza! Get recipes, tips & tricks with How to Brew Iced Tea , read our ongoing Bottled Iced Tea Reviews , and slurp up fun historical and cultural facts in our Iced Tea Quiz . Don't forget to c'mon back to share your quiz scores, tea brewing strategies, and suggestions about what store-bought blends we should sample next. Get sipping! And we had a few things to say about Souther...
Filed under: Books, Grilling, Cookbook of the Day It's spring, and as the air continues to warm, eyes glaze over with the thought of great grilled food and backyard feasts. For me, that used to mean tasty, barbeque, sauce-laden steaks, or my old roommate's frequent marinated chicken souvlaki. But then I got a new cookbook, one that has been my backyard, outdoor bible for a few years now -- Betty Rosbottom's The Big Book of Backyard Cooking . It's not a fancy book. There are no delicious pict...
Filed under: Restaurants, Cheese, America, Comfort Food, Bread As a devotee of the "more is more" school of sandwich making, this picture of the "Parmageddon" sandwich makes me drool. Two potato and cheese pierogies (Slavic stuffed dumplings), a greasy tangle of grilled onions, sauerkraut, and a slab of cheddar cheese, squeezed between two thick slices of grilled bread. The photo comes courtesy of writer-photographer David Lay, who captured this beast at Lakewood, Ohio's Melt Bar and Grille...
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