How Does Your Restaurant Sound?
Remember the days when fine dining rooms were truly fine? They murmured the soundtrack of haute cuisine as diners cameContinue Reading
Category: Eating The Neighborhood
It’s Apple Season! It is time for cake and Finger Lakes Riesling
Cake and Wine? When you live in the great Northeast, I say yes! Pairing cake and wine is not recommendedContinue Reading
Summer corn is now!
August is the perfect season to get your hands on sweet summer corn – eat it and preserve it!
Everyone Seeks Happiness, How to Navigate “Tipflation”
A returning customer is the best customer. And a happy customers are happy to tip.
My fried seafood love affair and some wines to pair
Clam bellies and Vinho Verde are the definition of great beach food
It’s Time to Fire Up the Grill and Chill the Red Wine
It’s June. The gardens are in, the deck is cleaned up, and the grill is ready to rock. In theContinue Reading
A Sicilian Lesson in Seasonal Eating and Two Recipes
It is early May, and I am currently writing this from one of my favorite neighborhoods in Palermo, Sicily. ForContinue Reading
Tales of a Seder Wine Dinner with a recipe
A Seder Wine Dinner Tale and a Recipe for Passover
Christmas in March, It’s Chili Time
Year: 1981. Place: Elm City Diner, New Haven, Ct. I was in my early 20s when I first began cookingContinue Reading
My Gumbo Comeuppance
I fell in love with gumbo way back in the early 1980s when Paul Prudhomme made his groundbreaking appearance onContinue Reading
July in January, a remedy for Cabin Fever
Winter in the Hudson Valley of New York means snow, ice, and chilling temps. Along with the bad weather comesContinue Reading
The Feast of the Seven Fishes in One Dish
Seasonal recipes from the great melting pot.