Go to Recipe Go to Video Most every culture has its retinue of cold soups to chase away the heat of summer, from the beloved gazpacho of Spain and Mexico, to vegetable-rich Russian Okrochka with its garnish of hard cooked eggs, to the famed Vichyssoise of New York. Who Wants Hot When it is Hot? …
Go to Recipe Go to Video From the minute I had the first bite of this cake, on a farm in the hills of Montana, I was in love. There was the setting, of course, which was a an old-fashioned, light-filled kitchen on the farm of Aili and Bill Takala, who had raised animals and …
Go to Recipe Go to Video As long as it is rhubarb season, we’ll be presenting rhubarb dishes here at Dancing Tomatoes because we love everything about it. Heterogeneity – Fruit or Veg? We’ve established its origins (Asia); we know it inspired the Romans to name it after people with no manners (Barbarians), we’ve included …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Barbarian root. Grrr. That sounds so evil, mean, unhealthy. Yet it is the English translation of the Latin name for rhubarb, reuburbarum, most likely derived from its extreme acidity and the vivid color of its stems. It is a huge misnomer because, truly, for a barbarian the rhubarb is …
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