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Midnight Bucatini with Bacon and Eggs

5/24/12 8:00am by PoorMansFeast
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Bucatini with Bacon and Eggs

After three nights away from home, I flew back to the east coast, and at ten o'clock on Saturday night, Susan picked me up at JFK. I had been in the air for hours, wedged into a tiny blue vinyl seat; by the time I touched down, I was exhausted, and so I dozed on and off for the entire car ride home, which took nearly an hour and a half. When we walked through the front door—after the dogs calmed down, after the cats stopped having intimate relations with my luggage—I realized that I was hungry. Not hungry, but crazy hungry. Mad hungry, as Lucinda Scala Quinn would say. Famished.  Read more >

BlogHer Food Speakers: Authors and Their Books, Part Two

5/23/12 11:00am by Polly Pagenhart
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BlogHer Food

Yesterday we brought you a Baker's Dozen of BlogHer Food speakers and their published books. Today we're bringing you another dozen -- 12 great speakers and their numerous works. You might not be able to read all of these books and make all of the amazing recipes in the cookbooks before BlogHer Food '12, but you do have time to grab a few.  Read more >

BlogHer Food Speakers: Authors and Their Books, Part One

5/22/12 9:18am by Polly Pagenhart
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BlogHer Food

You don't need to wait 'til BlogHer Food in Seattle next month to start sampling the recipes and poring over the prose of the talented folks who'll be speaking there. They're all online, most of them via their own blogs, which you can find on the speakers' pages here.But did you know that between them, this year's BlogHer Food speakers have also published over fifty books? That's not counting the contributions many have made to other cookbooks, and the books that they're in the process of -- forgive me -- cooking up.  Read more >

A Taste of South African Wine Yields Thirst For More

5/10/12 1:00pm by Diane MacEachern
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Enjoying South African Wine

My family and I went to Cape Town, South Africa recently to explore nature and to see for ourselves where Nelson Mandela spent three decades in prison trying to liberate from apartheid. We came home wondering how we could get our hands on more of the country’s delicious wines.  Read more >

When A Restaurant Offers Brilliant Food, But Discriminatory Service

5/2/12 1:00pm by I Live in a Frying Pan
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Iraqi Food in Dubai

[Editor's Note: No matter how good a restaurant's food may be, service is always an important part of the experience. While bad service can make a meal much less pleasant, what happens when one is treated unequally due to one's race, ethnicity, or nationality? This restaurant-goer in Dubai tells the story of an experience (at a restaurant she has left unidentified to protect herself from Saudi Arabian libel laws) where the food was sublime, but the service? Far from it. --Genie]  Read more

Sunday Pasta®: Strangozzi con le Capesante (Scallops)

4/29/12 10:46am by Garrubbo Guide
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Pasta with Scallops

It happened one day. On a cold gray Saturday in January, during the journey from Slovenia to Venice, in a car, driven by the thought of lunch on the Grand Canal.  The rest is a dreamlike blur: See sign for the Italian border. Forget Venice, too far away. Take first exit, Trieste. Wander to find Menarosti, Antico Ristorante dal 1903. Enter an unassuming doorway to find tables full of Italians eating, talking, and laughing. In the back room, nonna was shelling crabs by hand. Mother and daughter kept watch over the dining room, while son was in the kitchen. After a brief conversation about all the fish that came in that morning from the lagoon, eight delicious courses followed: various fish, shrimp, clams, scallops, fried, raw, baked, with pasta…and local Friulano wine too.  I thought about karma and how there would surely be payback for my good fortune.  As usual, I decided to keep that worry for another day, or at least until after espresso.  Read more >

A Mother's Story: Sharing The Kitchen With A Son With Cerebral Palsy

4/19/12 1:00pm by Jess Thomson
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Graham

[Editor's Note: I loved this story, which chronicles the history of a mother who wanted her son, who was born with cerebral palsy, to share cooking and time in the kitchen with her. From figuring out accommodations to better fit his abilities to helping him make his soon-to-be-famous hexagon-shaped cookies, this is a wonderful post about love, patience, and the magic that happens when families connect over food. --Genie] Cooking With Scrambled Legs  Read more

Five Things to Know Before You Start Your Food Blog (Plus a Giveaway!)

4/16/12 4:34pm by justataste
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Food Blogging for Dummies

From the technical considerations to the practical plans, starting a food blog encompasses so much more than simply reviewing restaurants or photographing fajitas. Since the launch of my food blog Just a Taste in 2008, I’ve kept a long list titled “Things I Wish I’d Known.” The list has proven to be invaluable, and it formed a strong basis for much of the guidance I offer in my new book, Food Blogging For Dummies.  Read more >

Five Tips for Writing Recipes

4/9/12 1:00pm by justataste
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The Ultimate Recipe

Through the process of researching, writing, and editing Food Blogging For Dummies, I quickly discovered that the topic of recipe writing deserves an entire book of its own. From technical considerations to stylistic preferences, writing a recipe—regardless if it appears in print or on the Web—is a detailed process in which success can literally hinge on the proper (or improper) usage of a single word.  Read more >

A Glimpse Into A Contemporary Irish Restaurant Kitchen

3/17/12 8:00am by Corinna Horton
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Chef Stefan Matz

[Editor's Note: What is the nature of modern Irish cuisine? Well, it's certainly moved beyond corned beef and cabbage. On this St. Patrick's Day, we join Food Gypsy on a journey to an Irish castle, and a glimpse into its kitchen. --Genie]  Read more