Serves: 4 Prep time: 40 minutes
Former White House Social Secretary and co-author of Treating People Well with Jeremy Bernard.
Chinese Steamed Fish
The taste of a particular food can evoke potent memories, bringing back sounds and smells, and calling up a moment in the past as if we’d never moved on from there. If I walk into a bakery and smell rye bread baking, it’s like being transported to my grandmother’s kitchen, where I used to kneel at the oven window, watching the little rye buns bake and counting the minutes until they were done. She always put coarse salt and caraway […]
Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
Chocolate Olive Oil Cake Adapted from House and Garden UK magazine Serves: 6
Gluten Free Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
I saw a recipe the other day for a flourless chocolate olive oil cake, in the British edition of House and Garden, which happened to coincide with my acquisition of an extra virgin olive oil called Olivastro from Olio2Go. Olivastro was the winner of the “best extra virgin organic olive oil in Italy” a couple of years ago, and it has a really fresh green flavor, a bit grassy with an almond aftertaste. It comes from a family-owned olive grove near […]
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