One of the things I most love about American cooking is how diverse it is, and how open people are to trying new things and making them their own. Where would American food be without the influx of immigrants who brought pizza, tacos, souvlaki, Peking duck, lemongrass soup and samosas to our shores?It sometimes takes a little adaptation and experimentation to bridge the cultural gap and render a dish from another country more pleasing to the American palate, and that’s […]
I wanted to write about Mamie Eisenhower and her famous “million dollar” fudge. As it turns out, every foodie and their precocious child has written about this fudge, but Mamie Eisenhower deserves a shout-out, because she was an especially good first lady, and a great hostess. She was an enormous asset to Dwight Eisenhower as he rose through the ranks of the military. Their home was thrown open to so many officers over the years that it became known as […]
Well, maybe not fifty, but there are so many ways to eat popcorn! You might think butter and salt is enough, and while that is classic, there are oodles of alternative flavorings for popcorn, to make it savory and festive. This is the time of year for it, when you feel the urge to sink into a soft couch with a big bowl of snackage (as we refer to any little nibbly treat), and watch the playoffs. Popcorn is the […]
Everyone loves homemade chocolate chip cookies. It’s almost impossible to make a bad one. But it’s natural to be curious about the other chocolate chip cookie recipes out there. If there’s an ingredient that hasn’t been folded into the recipe for novelty’s sake at this point (bacon, chocolate, cherries), I can’t imagine what it is. Garlic, maybe. But what if you gave a chocolate chip cookie recipe the kind of close attention and precision you’d give a soufflé or sourdough […]
This is a recipe built off a memory. When I was small, I ate only two things for lunch: Campbell’s chicken noodle or vegetarian vegetable soup. This went on for years, and I still love them both, but my own chicken noodle soup is better (just saying!), and I realized that I needed to recreate the vegetarian vegetable soup. I remember moving the little alphabet letters around with my spoon, trying to make up words. What kid wouldn’t have been […]
