Rosie DeQuattro

On a particularly long, particularly cramped overseas flight last week from Zurich to Boston, I was desperate for distraction and watched a lousy movie and an entire episode of Jamie Does Andalucia. Not normally a fan of Spanish cuisine, I was surprised at how appealing was...

March is a desert for whole foods lovers. The gardens are brown, the supermarkets are full of produce from Chile and Mexico, and even the Winter Farmers Markets around here have ended. Some of us compensate for the lack of freshness with stored vegetables from last season, like potatoes, carrots...

Is it pushing the season a bit to start thinking about fresh arugula?

Apparently not given the kind of mild winter we've been having. And to be sure, fresh arugula has been available all winter at indoor farmers' markets. Farmers have embraced the idea of year-round commerce...

It sounds a little odd, roasted grapes, but this is one of those recipes where the end result is more than the sum of its parts. Something wonderful happens when you apply heat to grapes tossed in fragrant olive oil. The transformation is unexpected; familiar and exotic at the same...

The original title of this recipe was Rustic French Meat Loaf. Doesn't that just sound so yummy and comforting for a cold, mid-winter's repast?

I found the recipe in an old Gourmet magazine I was about to recycle. Years ago I had tagged the recipe and...

It's cookie time.

First it was the Salvation Army ringing the bell outside my local supermarket. Now it's a gaggle of girl scouts, jumping up and down and yelling "Girl Scout Cookies! Girl Scout Cookies," hoping to snare you on your way out the door....

A sense-memory of Christmas as a kid hit me full-on this morning. It's Christmas morning and I'm an 11-year old, hanging around the catastrophe of discarded Christmas paper in the living room and taking it all in: something herbal and licorice; the grown-up aroma of black coffee; the sounds of...

You've probably heard of Panforte and Panettone -- the former meaning "strong bread," the latter, "small bread" (although Panettone is usually a tall, poofy affair packaged in a hat box, and Panforte is, well, small -- go figure: it's Italian). Both are essential to the Italian table at Christmas and...

This will become your go-to chocolate cake. It's simple, it's easy, and it's always good. But first, the story behind it...

In 1979 when my father was about 55 years old, with a couple of kids still at home (5 were already grown-up), he bought a Stop...