From Piscador to Sephardi Kitchen Traditions As we all know, the Spanish (Sephardi) have very clear titles for the ones that willingly participate in bloodletting at the bull ring. Matadors, picadors and toreadors all have their highly skilled roles fancy hats and costumes with some attracting more girls and accolades
Mixed Nuts and Chocolate Marquise This is one of those super tasty chocolate deliriums that you can’t resist, just can’t believe how tasty it was, but wish you never ate it. Even on passover after brushing the matzah crumbs from the table cloth, a meal isn’t complete
It’s that Passover / Pessach / Spring Cleaning / Bondage and Freedom / Bad Food time of year. Threatened? I am. Its two weeks before Passover, everyone up here in this frenetic slice of paradise has launched into their manic cleaning and cooking of unusually tasteless foods for one of the two biggies
Breaking Away (1979) was one of those great movies that never really made it beyond Sunday television, only grossing a miserable $17,000 on its opening night. Nevertheless it left the world a better place with a wider, sympathetic and humorous view of Italian culture at a time when the
The ‘Sustainable’ Cheese Mini Croissant This is one of those recipes that was created to reduce waste by using up expired pottles of cottage cheese along with the rag ends of hard cheeses that always seem to get lost and disappear somewhere in the dark recesses of our fridges. It
Across the Mediterranean and Middle East there is a common culinary delicacy: known to all, claimed by some and made possible only by the movement of New World. Foods to the Old World by Spanish Colonialism. The two most important ingredients of this dish, tomato and peppers/paprika, were plundered
Sweet breads come in a variety of shapes, flavours and sizes, and their singular purpose everywhere is to bring you closer to that warmer spot somewhere nearer to heaven itself. Brioche, kurtosh, doughnuts or even a Sally Lunn at your local school tuck shop in the good old days were
Rotolo Di Spinaci Rotolo is a lesser-known Italian pasta dish traditional to the region of Tuscany. Everyone is well acquainted with the popular filled pasta dishes such as tortellini and ravioli; very few have heard of rotolo, but with over three hundred different types of pasta and pasta dishes in
Date and Coconut Slice sounds nice After three posts of fish and one of salad dressings, it’s time to wash our hands well and try an all-rounder dessert that will be desirable to all age groups and foodies alike. This coconut and date delish is served up on a
