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No Manwich Tonight and Other Ways to Improve Your Life: Stuffed Peppers
Stacey: Tom, when you said, “Quick question: Can you get duck in Philly?”, I found myself answering you in the affirmative with a completely unfounded confidence, like, “Hellz yeah, that is so not a
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Spectrum Seasonal: Spring Onion Spaetzle
The sight of spring vegetables hint of firsts (first green salads, first market-bounty frittata, glorious first caprese), and spring onions make an exceptionally good first taste. With their hearty onion roots and sassy, piquant
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Twitter Challenge: Geisiers du Canard or Duck Gizzards
Someone with a sense of humor in the twitter-verse challenged us to get a handle on duck gizzards by issuing the following statement: I don’t get Gesiers du Canard, I don’t understand why, as
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Oeuvre: Keller: On Cookbooks and Poached Salmon
How do you use a cookbook? It’s an important question, the answer to which probably says more about the type of cookbook you have open in front of you at the time of asking
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Spectrum Seasonal: Goat Cheese Pizza with Roasted Asparagus and Slow Cooked Onions
Some people look to the groundhog’s shadow to figure out when spring begins. For others a witch hazel’s first bloom, or baseball’s opening day signify spring’s awakening. For me, I know spring is here
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Foodie Profile: St. John
St. John… aahhhhh St. John. For the uninitiated, St. John is a postage stamp of an island in the Caribbean, part of the semi-sovereign United States Virgin Islands. Think “Puerto Rico adjacent” and you’ll
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Spectrum Seasonal: Asparagus Salad with Feta & Hazelnuts
Ah, little readers: spring is upon us. The sun is shining a little more brightly, the birds are coughing gentle melodies in the trees and the air itself is fragrant with the scents of
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Oeuvre: Keller: Tripe
Living in a West Indian neighborhood, I see all sorts of strange preserved fish and offal in the stores. I often want to buy a piece of meat that I’ve never used and make
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No Manwich Tonight And Other Ways To Improve Your Life: Pizza
Stacey: Hey Tom, Help. I mean that quite literally. I think my microwave has achieved singularity. It beeps repeatedly as it pleases (as if in code!) and has elected to no longer respond to
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The Frisky Oyster: Greenport, NY
If ever there were a night not to go out to dinner… Gale force winds, squalls to match the intensity of the gusts and plunging temperatures that were an anomaly on the heels of
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