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If you need a good cry, but there is nothing in your life making you sad enough to shed tears, consider yourself lucky. Get Some Onions Then go to your pantry and get some onions. The onion is an allium and it will certainly bring forth the tears. Why? Well, it’s a simple matter of …
Go to Video Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme… Longing Search For Love Simon and Garfunkel wrote a Canticle about herbs, not for cooking but to sing of a longing search for love. So sweet. And so apt, because while we think about herbs for the beautiful flavor they give, each has its symbolic story to …
Go to Video Did you know that yogurt was “invented” to preserve milk? The Neolithic Method Way back in the Neolithic Age, when the refrigerator was a cool, running stream, animals were giving milk that just didn’t keep. So, the Neoliths did what anyone might: they poured whatever fresh milk they didn’t drink into their …
Go to Video GARLIC SAVIOR If you live near a farm that produces garlic, or in the country of France where garlic is one of the seven wonders of the culinary world, you come to know the difference between “new” and “aging” garlic. Life as an Edible Clove is Over We all know aging garlic. …
Go to Video PRESERVE THE HERB Growing your own herbs is something just about anyone can do, whether in a home with a garden or an apartment with a window box. Depending on the herbs you plant, at some point during the year there will be an overabundance, the kind that strikes fear into your …
Go to Recipe Begorrah. Slainte. Shite. That’s about the sum of my Irish vocabulary, which I learned after spending a short week in the Ancient East coastal area of rolling green hills, gently capped waters, Celtic crosses, and gorgeous brown bread. It’s what you’d expect of Ireland and it doesn’t disappoint. But there’s so much …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Magic Mayo Mayonnaise is a magic sauce. There really is no other way to describe it, because it’s an alchemical mystery in so many ways. How is it that one egg yolk and some vinegar can suspend up to several gallons of oil (this has been proven in laboratory …
Go to Video Mysterious Voyage of Discovery Since I was a child, the artichoke has been a mysterious voyage of flavor and discovery. We ate them often, each one getting a whole one on our plate, with our own little pot of melted butter alongside. Enjoying it leaf by meaty leaf was like an excavation …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Pate brisée literally means “broken pastry”. Translations can often be somewhat awkward, making something so ethereally delicious sound like something that just crashed to the floor and shattered into a thousand pieces. But the allusion isn’t all wrong, for the pate brisée that results in the recipe you will …
