Pantry Staples
Fiore del Sale by Vincenzo Gucciardo
Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews “Salt Flowers” from the Sicilian Seaside When summer salad season kicks in, it’s easy for me to get excited about all the amazing produce … Continued
The Deli Dish
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Pantry Staples
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Pantry Staples
Korean Red Chile Flakes
Our new favorite all-purpose Korean seasoning from our friends at Épices de Cru! Photo by Épices de Cru Korean pepper has a fine aroma, mild heat profile and gives a … Continued
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Grocery
Trinidad Curry by Épices de Cru
Calypso music, like this curry mix, and so much of Trinidadian culture, is a blend of various “imports” adjusted and added to become distinctly Trinidadian.
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Grocery Épices de Cru: Cassia versus Cinnamon
Does True Cinnamon Exist? If cassia and cinnamon were running for president, we could frame this as a debate. However, good cooks don’t need to choose—they can and do use … Continued
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Pantry Staples
The Historical Twists and Turns of Traditional Pasta
“Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” —Sophia Loren
“And art is always about relationship — to the material, to the self, and to the world in all its chaos and intrusion, its terror and its glory.” —Jeanette Winterson
Weird things happen when I least expect them. I was lying in bed, lamenting having had my third surgery in two months and working my way through the Sunday New York Times, when I came across a piece by Jeanette Winterson buried in the back of the Book Review.
“Art,” she wrote, “is always about relationship.”