If I can cook it, you can cook it And I'll travel the world to bring it back home to you.
The New Year’s Vow to Eat Less Meat introduces a Meat Lover’s Dream recipe. As New Year’s resolutions go, the one about eating less meat in 2020 has a lot of traction. And for good reason. Not only is it good for you, but it’s…
We almost invariably salute the coming weekend with a steak dinner on Friday night. We were both brought up eating beef but we’ve cut down our consumption mightily. And we have a new issue in our new apartment. Our kitchen is completely open. And despite…
As some of our readers know, we recently moved out of the apartment we’d lived in for 23 years and moved down one floor to an apartment where we plan to live the next 23 years. But all the Marie Kondo-ing in the world hasn’t…
It’s been almost ten years since we made this recipe and it’s still as good as it gets. One of the great challenges I face is to constantly look for new recipes, new combinations and new takes on the classics. When you think about it,…
Melissa Clark has to be one of the most prolific food writers and cooks in all of history. There’s her constant presence in the Food Section of The New York Times, where week after she creates some of our most memorable meals. Just type Melissa…
I have to admit being completely charmed by my visit to Scandinavia. In the interests of full disclosure, I went to Denmark and Norway side-stepping Sweden, Finland and far distant Iceland on my 7 day Viking Homeland itinerary. But I felt completely immersed in Scandinavia…
Rhubarb grown in greenhouses is always the first to appear in Rhubarb season. It’s grown for those people who simply cannot wait to cook with these rich, red stalks. So growers rush out ‘hothouse rhubarb’, which is a brighter red, sweeter tasting and more tender…
My mother never met a labor-saving device she didn’t love. And if there were any time-savings to be had, she would be first in line to buy it. She was especially fond of anything that kept her out of her least favorite room in the…
Melissa Clark’s “Dinner. Changing the Game” (Clarkson Potter 2017) arrived just a little late. The Instant Pot epidemic was fully underway and so this book took a back seat to her “Dinner in an Instant.75 modern recipes for your Pressure Cooker, Multi Cooker Instant Pot”…
“Dinner”, Melissa Clark’s latest cookbook, is among the most highly anticipated cookbooks of the year. Its author is a staff writer for The New York Times and pens its highly popular “A Good Appetite” column which is eagerly awaited every Wednesday in the newspaper’s “Food”…
The Breakfast Casserole is a particularly welcome dish over the holidays. With school out and plenty of days off, breakfast becomes a much bigger deal. In truth, Melissa Clark’s most recent contribution to this genre is a prefect brunch dish as well. It gets its…
Melissa Clark, Author of 29 Cookbooks Mother’s Day is upon us. It’s this Sunday, May 10th. It’s time for good children (and their fathers) to treat Mom to a day completely devoid of cooking. Although you can go the restaurant route and take Mom out…
Melissa Clark Before you turn the page on this wonderful dish, let me assure that those dried-out and dreadful anchovies that someone left atop your last Caesar Salad are not at work here. Instead, these flavor makers are worth a great deal more than their…
I know Andrew is good, I mean really good. But his baking skills really hit an all-time personal best with the making of this sinfully rich, fudgy, bittersweet cake. As Melissa Clark, who co-wrote “The Perfect Finish” (W.W. Norton and Co. (2010) the cookbook it…
My latest Travel Article in Porthole Magazine has just been published…And here it is!
