Paper Palate

As a fan of the lovely and talented Giada De Laurentiis, I’m not sure which I appreciate more: her entertaining Food Network programs or her growing collection of cookbooks.
Already the author of three well-received cookbooks (Everyday Italian, Giada’s Family Dinners, and Everyday Pasta), De Laurentiis has a much anticipated 4th book coming out entitled Giada’s […]

My family’s not vegetarian. In fact, my husband and daughter are just this side of partaking in the Caveman Diet. I like to incorporate (okay, sneak) as many vegetarian meals as they’ll tolerate into our diets, but since this isn’t my regular mode of cooking, I find myself stumped once I’ve made the cheese enchiladas, […]

Not Olive Oyl, Olive magazine, I should really review the July issue, but I will be reviewing June . . . and May.
Why? Because I dilly-dallied trying to pack so much into my post that I have rewritten it a least 5 million times. Starting with the title: Olive, somewhat different don’t you think? I understand Good-Food, Delicious, with […]

I’ve just returned from a shopping trip laden with ingredients all destined for recipes from the latest issue of Delicious.
From the local deli are bunches of herbs — parsley for the Tuna and Chickpea Salad and mint for Breast of Lamb Stuffed with Feta and Mint. I’m really into lamb at the moment, so this […]

Last January I picked up the issue of Gourmet that was on newsstands because my husband and I were planning a trip to Nashville. The January issue was a collector’s edition about Southern cooking with an article by author Ann Patchett about the food of Nashville.
I didn’t get to Patchett’s article until long after our […]

About eight years ago I went on a tear because I wanted to learn the dying art of home preserving but couldn’t find any equipment or guides. My ranting about how canning was an art that would die with our grandmothers fell on mostly deaf ears. Why would anyone go to the hot, miserable work […]

Every month or so my husband and I get together with a group of six of our friends for an evening we call World Food Night. We come up with a theme then each couple brings a dish and a bottle of wine and we spend the evening enjoying each other’s delicious food and lively […]