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 […]
I seek in anonymity’s cloister, not him who ate the first raw oyster, but one who, braving spikes and prickles, with infinite patience and fortitude, unveiled the artichoke as food. With all due deference to Ogden Nash’s famous poem, I would have to include grape leaves among those comestibles that don’t immediately advertise themselves as […]
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Is there anything kids love more than pizza? Probably not. Pizza is the most popular food in the school lunch program. Say “pizza” in the kitchen and kids are bound to come running. So we could hardly continue on our world food tour without making at least one version of Italy’s most famous pie. In […]
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