Paper Palate

I love desserts. They are the perfect end to a good meal and a great pick me up at the end of a tough day. I’ve shared many wonderful conversations over delicious desserts and had many excellent conversations about desserts themselves.
In short, desserts are fun. So Hump Day Horizons is looking at […]

So many grapes, so little time. That’s my first thought after reading this article by the Sacramento Bee’s produce expert, Michael Marks. The first one featured is a grape that I have never heard of before: the Princess grape. Marks informs us that this grape is so large that it “looks like […]

There was a question doing the rounds awhile back; what do you do outside the food and drink field? For Andrew, the answer was very little. “Immersed” is a word that could be used (as are several others not quite so complementary!). As well as his own blogs — spittoon (which covers wine and drink) […]

This might be a case where it is acceptable to judge a book by its cover. The clean, fresh, hip design on the cover of Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers’ Italian Two Easy: Simple Recipes from the London River Cafe apparently matches the contents of the cookbook, published in June of this year. […]

In this month’s issue of Martha Stewart Living, “Fit to Eat” features recipes that are rich in lycopene. In the article, we are reminded that much of the colorful produce of Summer’s end contains lycopene. Tomatoes, grapefruit, watermelon, and red papaya are among those vibrant food sources. Lycopene is the naturally occurring pigmentation and is […]

The Hudson River has been the site of numerous contamination issues over the years including PCBs. As a child growing up, the river itself became a symbol for dirty, grimy and just generally undesirable water. You didn’t swim there, let alone eat something from it. It was just understood to be that way.
Fast forward more […]

Like most people, I’m always on the look out for new week night dinner ideas. You know what I mean, something that doesn’t require tons of ingredients, needs minimal prep work and is ready to eat in no time. That’s why when I stumbled onto Betty Crocker 4 Ingredient Dinners I couldn’t pass […]

(photo courtesy http://www.ruhlman.com)
While acclaimed author Michael Ruhlman has written and co-written numerous bestselling books, his popular trilogy devoted to the art of professional cooking has endeared him to the global food community. A novice cook since childhood, his personal fascination with the culinary arts led to the writing of The Making of a Chef: Mastering […]

In his debut book, Rob DeBorde gives readers the low down on fish. Everything you could possibly want to know and more, you can find in his book “Fish on A First Name Basis”. The book includes the first names, along with the scientific names of all the fish and shellfish included in […]

The Hartford Courant this past week has an interesting article on what does and doesn’t work for weight loss progress in terms of food portion control and tracking.
What doesn’t work? According to a recent study, just because you have something like a PDA handy to track what you eat doesn’t mean you will be eating […]