Of all the joys of Christmas, a great Christmas Breakfast has always been a part of ours. Over the years, every Christmas Breakfast we’ve indulged in everything from Waffles to Pain Perdu (that’s French Toast to the rest of us). We have had plenty of…
If you are going to make Christmas cookies, why not make the best ones anyone ever tasted? Since Andrew is one of the greatest Cookie Bakers of all time, it wasn’t easy to come up with this list. So we went to the numbers and…
From beautiful breakfasts to restaurant favorites, from sweets to spaghetti, and from new cooking techniques, here are the recipes our readers chose as their favorites this year. Chewing The Fat published 124 recipes in 2022. Some of them came in multiples: 7 recipes for cookies…
Quite a few years ago, I concocted a recipe for Ham that became the very first Food Writing I ever did. It was published in Saveur Magazine in 1995 in a story I wrote titled: “The Ham Gambit: How Carlotta fed 30 people for $6.99”. …
This glorious cranberry tart topped with candied cranberries and whipped cream put cranberries on our Thanksgiving Table in a dramatic new way. I marvel at Andrew’s passion for baking. And it’s at its zenith at holiday time. It doesn’t necessarily mean Thanksgiving or Easter or…
HERE THEY ARE! THE 10 MOST POPULAR COOKIE RECIPES WE’VE EVER PUBLISHED Just in time for holiday baking, here’s a post dedicated to the most popular cookie recipes ever. We’ve featured a lot of cookies in the past fourteen years. We have entire Hampton Classic…
IT’S CHRISTMAS! LET’S GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN AS FAST AS WE CAN. Today’s post is actually a repeat of one we featured in 2013. And it’s well worth repeating. This Turkey Lasagna is big and bold and perfect for a weeknight. It downsizes your…
Polpettone in Crosta. An Italian take on Meatloaf takes the dish to another level! “Meatloaf” never looked more spectacular or tasted anything quite like Sofia’s Polpettone. Its crunchy shell of puff pastry revealed a richly seasoned pork and veal mixture greatly enhanced a handful of…
Fresh Cranberries–or virtually any fruit you choose–make this Crumb Cake perfect for Holiday Baking. We have a lot of affection for Saveur Magazine. It was, after all, the first publication my food writing appeared in. It’s also our kind of food magazine where there’s a…
When Julia Child spoke…America listened and laughed. Julia Child famously said “With enough butter, anything is good”. And she lived by her word. Butter was an essential part of practically everything she cooked. This took quite a lot of bravery on Julia’s part. At the…
Our friend Jeff Lobb is a wonderful cook and entertains beautifully. Especially when his partner Don is in the kitchen with him. And if Jeff is famous for one dish above all others, it is his fondness for Rack of Pork that stands out. This…
There are times when all the work I put into Chewing The Fat truly pays off. And certainly this holiday season got off to a great start with the arrival of a sensational group of cheeses from Marin French Cheese, the French-owned California Cheese Company…
One of the first things I tasted aboard Viking Ocean’s Homeland cruise was an artfully arranged serving of Gravlax. It was beautifully served in The Restaurant aboard Viking Star as we sailed for Denmark. I liked it so much, it was the first of many…
Scampi I first wrote this post a year ago. But I thought I would repeat it again this year because it’s a wonderful explanation of an Italian tradition that many Italian Americans will uphold again this Christmas Season. And the recipe follows my mantra for…
PONANT EXPLORES THE GLOBE WITH A DECIDEDLY FRENCH ACCENT.
