Cooking
2010 Xtreme Eating Awards Given by the Nutrition Action Healthletter
“But these chains don’t promote moderation. They practice caloric extremism, and they’re helping make modern-day Americans become the most obese people ever to walk the Earth.” more »
Too Good to Miss: Ruffino Lumina Pinot Grigio 2009
Pinot Grigio is a fine apéritif, and is generally paired with salads, antipasto, fish, shellfish, chicken, pork, and vegetable and seafood pastas. Ruffino recommends this Lumina with soft shell crabs, grilled fish, pasta primavera, grilled chicken, and ethnic dishes including Mexican enchiladas, Greek dolmas and Thai green curries. more »
All in the Family: Five Producers of Good-Value Italian Wines
Sharon Kapnick writes: Other than family management, ingredients that go into these wines are passion, dedication, creativity, research, innovation, state-of-the-art technology, tradition and decades — even centuries! — of experience more »
Blending In
Ferida Wolff writes:
My husband and I went on vacation to a place both foreign and familiar
to me — the Middle East. The foreign aspect was that I had not been in
that part of the world before. The familiar part had to do with my
paternal family. My… more »