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Mediterraneanista’s Holiday List, Part 2
Gifts and Treats for You and Yours CITRUS FRUITS AND FRESH HERBS ARE BELOVED big-flavor ingredients in Mediterranean cooking. When I...
Basia HellwigDecember 13, 2010
Meatless Monday: Do You Have Recipes to Contribute?
MEDITERRANEANISTA’S Shaved Fennel and Apple Salad is on this week’s menu at Meatless Monday. I’ve written before about this nonprofit public health campaign...
Basia HellwigDecember 13, 2010
Mediterraneanista’s Holiday List, Part 1
Gifts and Treats for You and Yours We’ve made some wonderful discoveries this year during our travels around New York City’s...
Basia HellwigDecember 11, 2010
RECIPE: Shaved Fennel and Apple Salad
FENNEL MAKES ITS FALL APPEARANCE at the farmers’ market along with apples—a great tart/sweet flavor combo, especially when set off by a...
Basia HellwigNovember 30, 2010
Meatless Monday Cure for Thanksgiving Feast Hangover
[caption id="attachment_1192" align="alignnone"]Today’s lunch—Shaved Fennel and Apple Salad. With its crunchy freshness and citrus dressing, it's the perfect post-Thanksgiving dish.[/caption] AFTER THE...
Basia HellwigNovember 30, 2010
At the Market This Week—Gathered from the Wild
INTERESTING ARTICLE IN YESTERDAY’S New York Times on chefs using unusual wild ingredients in their dishes. Nova Kim of Wild Gourmet Food (included...
Basia HellwigNovember 24, 2010
Meatless Monday Gets Chefs to Dish for Thanksgiving
IF YOU’RE STILL LOOKING FOR IDEAS for the un-meat part of your Thanksgiving meal, Meatless Monday has invited its favorite chefs and cooks...
Basia HellwigNovember 22, 2010
UN Adds Mediterranean Diet to Intangible Cultural Heritage List
[caption id="attachment_1185" align="alignnone"]Sardinian olives for making olive oil, a staple of the Mediterranean diet. The countries around the Mediterranean produce 95% of the...
Basia HellwigNovember 21, 2010
At the Market This Week
WHOLE GRAINS, FLOURS, BREAD—it’s Greenmarket Grains Week—cauliflower, winter greens, squash and…Peter Hoffman, chef/owner of the restaurants Savoy and Back Forty, doing a cooking demo...
Basia HellwigNovember 20, 2010
Some Real Mediterranean Gems Here
ALWAYS OPEN TO NEW RECIPE IDEAS, I took a look at this animated short by filmmaker Gary Leib: 101 Quick and Simple Dishes for Fall....
Basia HellwigNovember 16, 2010