Characterized by ingredients such as fresh seafood, olives, legumes, soft cheeses, fresh herbs, spices, tomatoes, and a glass of red wine with dinner, the Mediterranean diet will delight anyone's taste buds.
Do you ever get home at night, famished, and wonder how quickly you can get food on the table before everyone starts gorging on crackers or worse? If "think fast, cook faster" is your motto, then pasta primavera is your friend.
There are few things more satisfying than diving headfirst into a bowl of noodles. Here are 10 bowls to lean over, to slurp up, to happily get all over your face.
It's not the awning. That Italian-flag green flap of fabric is pretty pedestrian. No, what attracts attention to Cassinelli is that it's shuttered so much of the time.
As a nice Italian boy, as well as a former runner-up in the Newman's Own & Good Housekeeping Recipe Contest for a dish I called Zezima's Zesty Ziti Zinger, I have many remembrances of things pasta.
Whether you're a novice cook or as seasoned as a pot of pasta water, you've most likely cooked yourself a bowl of some kind of noodle. It was probably easy; it was probably good. But we've got tips on how to make it better.
After I wrote about my collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Daniel Corey, I got lots of requests for the recipes we created. By popular demand, here they are.
"It'll be perfect -- we'll just take our KitchenAid mixer, make a ton of delicious fresh pasta and then sell it in farmers markets wearing cute floaty dresses with the sun on our faces and smell of tomatoes!" Well, that was the original plan, anyway.
Late last month, chef Daniel Corey was awarded a Michelin star for the second year in a row. Just a few days later, I was invited into his kitchen at San Francisco's Luce restaurant.
On election night, conclusive results might not be forthcoming until late in the evening or early morning. If you want home cooked food, here are some easy-to-make favorites. Good luck to you and all the candidates you believe in!
Now that I've gotten the hang of making meatballs, I'm out proselytizing for the cause. You can make them too -- and join the ranks of the folks who make meatballs themselves.