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Vintage HandPicked: Pumpkin Waffles Recipe with Warm Cinnamon Apples
Editor’s Note: When I called Cheryl Paff this morning to ask her what she’s cooking next week for Thanksgiving, she reminded me of her award winning pumpkin waffles recipe (she won a blue ribbon at...
View ArticleFemale Chefs and Women in Agriculture
Female chefs and women in agriculture make significant contributions to food every single day. It’s fairly obvious to even a casual observer that some world-class women are influencing what we eat. On...
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Recipe: Grandma’s Sweet Potatoes
Editor’s Note: We asked our contributors to share their favorite family recipes for Thanksgiving, and Kara Suzanne sent her Grandma’s Sweet Potatoes. Thanks, Kara! We’ll be posting a lot of holiday...
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Recipe: Zesty Spicy Cranberry Sauce
I love cranberry sauce. I really do. My sister will only eat the kind out of the can, but not me. And here it is, autumn, with all its beautiful colors–Thanksgiving approaching, the cranberry beckons!...
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The Perfect Thanksgiving Stuffing
Here’s my idea for the perfect Thanksgiving stuffing, but first a quick story. As expats living in London, there are really only two days of the year when I suffer from quite deep homesickness. One is...
View ArticleThoughts on Cooking Turkey
Cooking turkey sounds easy, but a lot of factors come into play to make it, shall we say, challenging. I am not a chef. I am not an expert at cooking turkey. I do, however, have some practical...
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Nanny McFarland’s Cheesy Grits
Cheesy grits rule and my favorite Thanksgiving dish, hands-down, has to be Nanny McFarland’s Cheesy Grits! When HandPicked Nation asked me to share my favorite Thanksgiving side dish, there was no...
View ArticleTo Brine, To Bard or to Baste?
To brine, to bard or to baste…that is the question if you have a bird in hand to roast. Like most of the big questions in life, this one also begs several others before the answer is to be found:...
View ArticleJohn Egerton: Champion of Southern Food
We lost John Egerton last week. Mr. Egerton was a great champion of real food, southern food. If you’re not acquainted with John Egerton and his work, maybe you should be. Here is Mr. Egerton in his...
View ArticleGreen Beans and Memories
Favorite thanksgiving food: is it the sides, the main course or the desserts? For me, it wasn’t the food per se, it was the anticipation, atmosphere, and the presentation that came from the annual...
View ArticleLil Foodies with Big Ideas
Do you have any budding “Lil Foodies” in your life? I do, and believe me, the kids’ menus at most restaurants are at best, uninspired, at worst, just awful. Whenever I take my grandkids to dinner, I’m...
View Article5 Gifts for the Food Obsessed
Well, here we are. It’s early December and time to start making our gift-giving lists. Here a quick list of five gifts that any food-obsessed person on your list would love to receive. Blackberry...
View ArticleHappy Holiday Digestion
Digestion can get off track with all the holiday indulgences that surround us this season. Raluca Schachter has some good tips to keep your stomach in happy working order. For many people this month...
View ArticleKids Cook!
My kids cook! This school year, my two boys–ages 7 and 4–decided to take on a major responsibility at our house: cooking dinner. They’ve always helped in the kitchen (I even used to drag them, in...
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Chef Glady’s Turnip Salad
Chef Glady’s Turnip Salad is a delicious, unexpected winter go-to side dish. Last Sunday morning we traveled across the Hudson River to attend the season’s first Rhinebeck Farmer’s Winter Market. Held...
View ArticleVintage HandPicked: Don’t Be That Food Person
Let’s start with this: I can’t change anybody. Neither can you, but neither of us should be that ‘food person’. (Thank goodness!) I learn this lesson over and over again, in a thousand different ways....
View ArticleVintage HandPicked–The Salad Dressing Stomp
Editor’s note: The Salad Dressing Stomp was a spontaneous moment between Zak Pelaccio’s mortar and pestle and a plugged-in guitar player. We were lucky enough to be there with our cameras. Since this...
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Vintage HandPicked: Handmade Pasta for the Feast of the Seven Fishes
The Feast of the Seven Fishes, or Festa dei Sette Pesci, is a traditional Christmas Eve celebration in southern Italy in which seven different seafood dishes are served. The custom has been practiced...
View ArticleThe Year 2013 In Review (Kinda)
Editor’s note: The year 2013. Yikes. While reading end-of-year columns, we came upon this beauty from Food Arts. Written by Merrill Shindler, we have hand-picked some pertinent facts, figures and...
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Vintage HandPicked Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Cake
I cannot take any credit for inventing this vegan chocolate cake. I have been making it since 1985, when I bought the cookbook, Cafe Beaujolais, based on the namesake restaurant in Mendocino,...
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