After eggplant Parmesan, Middle Eastern baba ghanouj may be the second-most famous eggplant dish in the world. And I now think there must be a million different ways to prepare it. As if to prove my point, the Lebanese mother of one of the girls in my food appreciation classes agreed to sample some of […]
It’s time for the semi-annual parents dinner at the elementary school where I teach my food appreciation classes and I’ve settled on a Moroccan theme. Without a bevy of North African chefs in my kitchen, I’ve been left to ponder how I go about making a vegetable couscous that’s normally prepared in a special Moroccan […]
Before refrigeration, fisherman plying the rich Atlantic waters off Canada dried and salted their harvest of cod. The cod are mostly gone, but the tradition lives on, nowhere more so than in Portugal, where there are said to exist at least 1,000 recipes for preparing salt cod. Salt cod isn’t exactly a convenience food. You […]
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