I love spinach and artichoke dip but unless I know for a fact that everyone is going to dig in immediately I am not a fan of serving it at cocktail parties or gatherings. Even in all of its rich, cheesy, pretending-to-be-healthy-because-it-has-spinach glory, spinach-artichoke dip doesn’t hold very well for grazing. The cheese congeals and as soon as it [...]

Last week I blogged about a wine tasting party that I hosted. More specifically, I taunted you with photos of delicious food without telling you anything about it. For my other blog I’ve been doing a lot of research about food: not just cooking it and then forcing my friends to eat it (which I [...]

Almost every year on Thanksgiving, without fail, I put out a spread – usually a cheese plate with crackers and a rotating dip or two – that my family eats, enjoys and fills up on before the turkey is even out of the oven. Of course, each year, without fail, we still load our plates [...]

Spanish is the second most common language spoken in the US (following English, in case you were wondering). I know some people might think it’s because of an increase in the country’s Hispanic and Latin American population but I think there is a different reason. The Spanish language is fun to speak. There are accents [...]

I’m not a shy person when it comes to public declaration of love. I don’t mean that in a Tom-Cruise-couch-jumping-on-Oprah kind of way, but maybe the better way to phrase this is that I’m not afraid to like what I like. And today, I want to profess my love for caramelized onions.

Recently I read a book that a colleague who shares my love of good-for-you food recommended. In Real Food, Nina Planck challenges conventional theories about “real foods.” Despite recent medical claims that saturated fats impair health, she suggests that natural food sources such as cream, butter, eggs and animal fats are not in fact responsible [...]