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The Food Maven Diary Archives :
June 2010
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
2010-01-27 Pig Fest
I participated in a three-hour pork feast in a town just north of Naples called Giugliano. As Bette Davis said in Beyond the Forest (1949), “What a dump!” [more]
Thursday, June 10, 2010
2010-01-25 Italy, Spain, Paris, Morocco
I know it has been a long time since I last wrote. I have some really boring excuses that I won’t bother to explain. But I also have had some interesting as well as frustrating situations that have kept me away from writing.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
2009-12-01 Tweeting
After sending this out as a newsletter, I got email suggesting that I was better suited to the long form – or, at least, everyone told me to stop tweeting and start writing again.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
2009-26-11 Eat Fresh Food
Do you have a teen or tween in your life? The only cookbook written precisely for them is by my dear friend Rozanne Gold’s “Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs.” Both Rozanne and I are on a campaign to get EVERYONE, not just kids, to EAT FRESH FOOD. If it comes in a package from a manufacturer, don’t eat it. Okay, with the exception of ice cream. [more]
Thursday, June 10, 2010
2009-11-19 Lundy's on My Mind
A few weeks ago, for no good reason other than I was already on ebay.com checking out a piece of pottery I was bidding on, I put the word “Lundy’s” into the search line. Sometimes a fork or spoon comes up from the favorite restaurant of my youth. [more]
Thursday, June 10, 2010
2009-11-05 The City Cook and Italian Shopping
I can’t believe I listened to the whole thing, the entire 22 minutes of my interview with Kate McDonough at her great website. The audio interview is beautifully edited, making me sound quite professorial, going on and on (and on) so fluently about Southern Italian food. In reality, I rambled more. But Kate and her techy husband, Mark, gave me gloss. I’m very impressed with the sound quality, too. Play it, you’ll see. [more]
Monday, June 7, 2010
2009-10-29 Pasta and Lentils
This is from my new book, “The Southern Italian Table: Authentic Tastes from Traditional Kitchens.” If you are vegetarian or kosher, this is a great recipe for your repertoire. Just leave out the tiny amount of pancetta or other pork product. There’s no need to increase the oil, but don’t miss out on a final fillip of fruity olive oil drizzled over the top of each portion, or use, as I do, hot pepper oil – called Olio Santo, sainted oil, in some Southern Italian places. I make it by pouring warmed oil over crushed hot pepper or broken dried pepper pods. That recipe is in “The Southern Italian Table,” too. [more]
Monday, June 7, 2010
2009-10-22 Turkish Leeks
Without a book project to work on I am free to cook as I please. I mean I don’t have to test recipes. I don’t have to cook only Southern Italian food (the upcoming book), or Yiddish food (the last book), or NYC food (the book before that). I am cooking things I want to eat, not things I need to write about. [more]
Monday, June 7, 2010
Pesto Trapanese
This weekend’s farmers market will probably be the last gasp for vine-ripened, summer tomatoes, at least in these New York parts. Maybe there will be one week more. I’m expecting a freeze any morning now. It’s okay. I have been wallowing in tomatoes (and peppers) for two months now. It’s time to move on to butternut squash, I suppose. And I actually have a hankering for broccoli, which is looking very enticing, all purple and blue-green piled high on the farmstand tables, although I know I will be sick of it by January. Last week, a New Jersey-grown cabbage, another vegetable that improves as the weather grows colder, was so sweet I couldn’t stop eating it raw as I was shredding it for cabbage braised with a little Italian hot sausage (and a touch of tomato paste), a combination I put on macaroni.
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