Thanksgiving is just around the corner: a big deal in North America but not so much anywhere else. As an Israeli/Kiwi, I was completely ignorant of Thanksgiving until I began working for the United States Consul General and his family in Jerusalem back in 2017. The Thanksgiving table is
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This is one of my favourites. It’s classy, tasty and relatively easy to make. The thigh is the juiciest part of the bird. While most recipes in cookbooks and on the internet call for using chicken breast, I rarely use it as it is the driest and least rewarding
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You don’t really need to know about tuiles, but it’s always nice to have an inkling regarding their purpose and contribution to the culinary world. Tuiles is French for roof tiles and is called such as tuiles were once shaped like a roof tile. Times have since moved
Down there in NZ you might still be able to catch your own fresh bounty from the oceans and put a nice piece of fish on the table for lunch or supper. Throughout the rest of the world, this is little more than a romantic hunting and gathering urge from
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The name spring roll is a literal translation of the Chinese Chun Juan, a food that is eaten traditionally in Asia every year to welcome the coming of spring. Spring rolls are stacked up once fried golden brown, resembling layers of gold bars to Chinese folk: a wish for a
Janet Taylor MSc (Nutr. Sci) Janet has two completed PhD projects in Nutritional metabolic (Medical) science. She is passionate about food, farming and human health. The fart tax seems to diminish the fact that gut methanogen organisms are responsible for ruminant animal carbon GHG emissions, and that the combined C
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With the rapid global rise in the cost of living, many folk are forced to pay closer attention to their weekly supermarket bills as they struggle to stay ahead of the game. To that end it is worthwhile casting your eyes back to poverty-proven and time-tested recipes from the days
Janet Taylor MSc (Nutr. Sci) Janet has two completed PhD projects in Nutritional metabolic (Medical) science. She is passionate about food, farming and human health. With our farmers getting a bum steer, it’s worth noting some flaws in current food arguments. Animal products are nutrient-dense foods with an efficient
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While Japanese cuisine isn’t part of my regular culinary commentary, I very much enjoy a roll of nigiri or a good sashimi as much as the next person. Many Japanese delicacies are not only aesthetically pleasing and interesting, but are also very often the perfect “bite size”, making them
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Stuffed mushrooms first started appearing as a popular recipe in the late 19th century in Italy. The Italians are renowned for stuffing everything and anything from zucchini flowers to pasta dough: the culinary term for this in Italian is ripiene. Anything on an Italian menu with the prefix ripiene will
