I love to travel. One of my favorite pastimes when traveling is to visit food markets and grocery stores to see what our world neighbors are eating. While the food in some locations is more "exotic" than others, I still find food items and eating habits to differ significantly ...
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Spanish Pork Stew from Madrid Chef, Abraham Garcia
A little over two years ago, I was attending the International Olive Oil conference in Madrid, Spain. At the recommendation of some Madrid friends, I was studying the lunch menu at the famed Madrid restaurant, La Viridiana. For some reason, I was not particularly inspired ...
Vietnamese Shaking Beef from Milk Street
Milk Street, the more adventuresome offshoot of Cook's Illustrated, is now one of our favorite resources for new and unusual taste profiles. This recipe for Vietnamese Shaking Beef or Bò Lúc Låc is from a June, 2018 email we received from the folks at Milk Street. A Milk ...
Roast Chicken Cacciatore with Red Wine Butter
Italian cooking in the 60s and 70s in the United States was characterized by large portions of pasta and some meat or fowl swimming in a pool of tomato sauce. You then added a great deal of Kraft’s grated Parmesan cheese on the mixture and you were off to the races. Much has ...
Seared Salmon with Summer Vegetables from Food and Wine
I often feature a number of recipes from Food and Wine magazine. This month is no exception as we reprint a popular salmon recipe from Michael Romano of Union Square Cafe (our favorite NYC restaurant) that features late summer vegetables. The USC recipe, which appeared in the ...
Heirloom Tomatoes with Herbs and Almond Vinaigrette
Two years ago I wrote about the benefits of eating heirloom tomatoes because they simply "taste like tomatoes." Local farmers like Jennifer at Brushy Hill understand the benefits of organic tomatoes that pickup mineral traces grown in soil that is naturally irrigated: ...
Hill Country Shrimp and Avocado Salsa
This is an edited reprint of an article first posted on our sister blog, Gourmay.net featuring a great shrimp and avocado salsa recipe. This recipe was served to us by Diane Turner, but several family chefs have had a role in perfecting it. In any event, there is an ...
Creamy Garlicky Tomato Gazpacho without Cucumbers
Having lived in Spain for close to five years, I believe I have sampled most every form of tomato gazpacho. All have their unique flavors, but I must confess that I have "issues" with cucumbers. Many moons ago, I sampled a lovely gazpacho (which is probably not the ...
Cooking Okra the Proper Way
Many people don't like the taste of okra. I can certainly relate to that, since I only learned to cook it as an adult. For the most part, this African vegetable is generally overcooked and lacks the flavor and "crunch" of a properly cooked vegetable. Frankly, most cooked ...
Cold Curried Zucchini Soup Recipe
I don't know about you, but there are few things more refreshing on a hot, muggy summer's day than a cold soup. For those of you who have OD'd on gazpacho, may I present a lovely summer soup that hits all of the high points: Cold Curried Zucchini Soup. This recipe comes from ...
A Walk Through English History
Editor's Note: This is a reprint of a Blog Post about London Walks published a year ago on a sister site, GourMay.net, which documents one of our trips to Great Britain. Slightly irreverent, this blog post is pitched more to our family than readers of Gourmet Living. ...
Poached Salmon and Farro Salad
It seems like every restaurant serves salmon. Sure, I enjoy salmon - even the farm-raised variety - but salmon is an oily and somewhat heavy fish. We try and cut the oiliness with an Asian marinade heavy on citrus, but even this gets a bit boring. Frankly, on a hot summer ...