The Flexitarian Cook

My daughter has often been the primary motivator for the vegetarian recipes I have written about here. She turned vegetarian around the age of 11, and since then, the rest of us have seriously curbed our consumption of meat and poultry, even if we still enjoy those once or twice a week (we’re flexitarians after [...]

A quick post, for a quick, classically Italian tomato and bread salad. The inspiration came from an America’s Test Kitchen show on PBS that I caught while on vacation in Cape Cod one slow morning. I just had to make it. It captures summer perfectly, in my view.   Panzanella Keep in mind that this [...]

Years ago, my sister Brigitte was married to an Iranian man. She met him in Paris, where he still lives, but most of his family lived in Tehran. These were the early days of the Islamic Revolution, and they certainly were not very good times for Ali’s family, yet a few of them somehow managed [...]