I’ve taken on a new challenge at the elementary school where I teach my food appreciation classes: baking. We’ve divided the year into three teaching segments, instead of just one for each semester. They asked me to come up with something besides “cooking,” where we’ve been traveling the world for the last three years. I […]
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 […]
This salad, with toasted pecans and a vinaigrette of maple syrup and orange juice, is one of our favorite ways to bring nutritious sweet potatoes to the table. And if you were looking for a perfect side dish to serve for Thanksgiving, you can call off the search. The kids in our food appreciation classes […]
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