I toyed with the idea of packaging some recipes with this week’s A la Carte story on free-range pork. There’s been no shortage of variations on pork, from Asian to Indian to classic continental flavors, thanks to The Associated Press and other news services that deal in recipes. But any suggestion that readers should use [...]
Recipes and food stories appropriate for the most celebratory of seasons were tempered last month with no shortage of eulogies for Gourmet magazine. I never counted myself among the publication’s fans, although I’ve come to appreciate, since its demise, the contributions it made to the industry and its significance in the minds of humble home [...]
Chefs and farmers are joining forces to serve a local feast. Dubbed the “CommUnity Meal,” the event is planned from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Ashland’s Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road. It’s the first of what organizers hope is an ongoing effort to feed members of the newly formed Local Alliance for [...]
Food doesn’t get much more comforting than confit. As explained in this week’s A la Carte edition of Since You Asked, the technique was likely the original way of preserving meat by cooking and then packaging it against contact with air and subsequent spoilage. I’ve always loved the dark meat of poultry and rich flavors [...]
I intended to expand last week’s story on vegan cooking with information about desserts, in particular. Until the story’s example of vegan sweets turned sour. Actress Alicia Silverstone’s vegan cookbook may be dubbed “The Kind Diet,” but her Coffee-Fudge Brownie recipe wasn’t so kind to readers who, enticed by the photo with last week’s story, [...]
Speaking of chicken, a whole slew of recipes will be presented Friday evening at RoxyAnn Winery, provided enough people sign up for its first cooking class of 2010. Chef Jesse Bartyzal plans a menu of chicken cacciatore, picatta, mousseline, teriyaki, satay, stuffed wings and broth or stock. For $75, participants will enjoy a full meal, [...]
When it comes to food writers, birds of a feather flock together. Ideal for chilly winter evenings, roast chicken is the dish everyone’s crowing about. First Jan Roberts-Dominguez shared side dishes in this week’s A la Carte to accompany the “perfect” roast chicken, as covered in her Oct. 28 column. Then more recipes for the [...]
It’s the first step toward overcoming addiction. After reading the Night Crawler’s resolution to get his fat-and-carbs fix fewer times per week, I’m coming clean. It may come as a surprise that I, too, share Chris Conrad’s addiction to macaroni and cheese. It may come as more of a surprise that he and I actually [...]
Following the onslaught of “trend” stories from the food world — even more with the decade’s demise — this week’s A la Carte section couldn’t handle all of them. Yet I couldn’t resist relating the “10 worst dining trends” of the decade, as reported by the Chicago Tribune. Some of these food fads haven’t really [...]
