Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews An amazing—and amazingly easy—appetizer In the interest of promoting simple food that’s easy to prepare, seasonal, and really, really good … radishes are coming into … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A coming together of three origins of cacao in one wildly good bar If you like good chocolate and you don’t yet know Shawn’s chocolate bars, … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Hot green chile “salsa” from Jordan What is shatta? The word means “pepper” in Arabic, and that’s really what it is. Think of green salsa in … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Sometimes the things you find online really work! It’s probably no surprise that after many decades of cooking professionally, I was more than a little skeptical … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Pineapple, walnuts, bananas, cream cheese frosting, and so much more It’s been about 20 years now since the Bakehouse first started making Hummingbird Cake. It was … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A great new oil from the Central Coast of California Here’s a classic—and tasty—case where a strongly held point of view, a vivid vision of the … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A classic French cow’s-milk cheese with nearly two hundreds years of history While Roquefort gets so much of the attention among traditional blue cheeses, my belief … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A late-season weekend fling with one of my Bakehouse favorites One of my favorite items from the Bakehouse pastry kitchen, Summer Fling Coffee Cake is available daily … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Italian rice and a whole bunch of butter and cheese While risotto still gets most of the attention here in the U.S. when it comes to … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A terrific taste of the 19th-century American confectionery Peanut brittle as we make it and know it is seemingly an American product, dating to the 19th-century … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A special bake! Loaves of crusty Jewish rye, liberally laced with black, softly spicy, and aromatic nigella seeds. If you’ve ever tasted Chernushka Rye, you’re likely … Continued
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Splendid spread made from Sicilian pistachios and extra virgin olive oil For years now, this has been one of my favorite foods in the ZCoB! I … Continued