THE SUPER BOWL – is it about the football or the chicken wings
By Larry Levine – (This was posted a week before the 2014 Super Bowl game. We decided to leave it up on the magazine after the game because the chicken wing recipes are just so good. So, who ever wins, or won the game, don’t let that stop you from making a... Read More
A BONA FIDE SUSHI PLETHORA DILEMMA
By Larry Levine – I can hear the sarcastic groans of sympathy even before I write these words. But I’m suffering with a sushi plethora dilemma. There are too many excellent sushi restaurants in my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know; there can’t be such a thing. So, how... Read More
LATKES AND TURKEY/ a culinary convergence when Hanukkah meets Thanksgiving
By Larry Levine – Jews in American usually get to cash in on the holiday culinary sweepstakes at least twice at this time of year. For some, who yield to the Christmas avalanche, it can even be three times. We get Thanksgiving dinner; we get Hanukkah latkes; and then... Read More
THE VIRGIN FRYER AND GRILLED SHRIMP DISASTER
By Larry Levine – Fried chicken? Grilled shrimp? What’s going on here? I don’t fry. I don’t grill. Or I didn’t fry. I gave up deep frying many years ago. I never could figure out what to do with all that used cooking oil. I didn’t grill either. I don’t like the... Read More
THE ALLURE OF THE ELUSIVE PERFECT ROASTED CHICKEN
By Larry Levine – There’s something wondrous about a whole roasted chicken sitting in all its golden glory on a carving board. To the eye or the camera lens it’s an icon of culinary perfection, the stuff of food magazine covers, usually surrounded by a colorful... Read More
GADGETS AND GIZMOS TO CLUTTER A KITCHEN
By Larry Levine – You know that drawer in your kitchen that’s so stuffed with stuff that you have trouble opening it? The one where you have jammed in all manner of gadgets and gizmos through the years. The one you have to reach into and start to empty things... Read More
IN QUEST OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR FOIE GRAS / desperation sets in after just two days
By Larry Levine – Chickens go “cluck” and ducks go “quack”. Any two year old knows that. Or in the case of my brilliant grand daughter, any 20 month old. But what if you tried to substitute a chicken’s liver for a duck’s as... Read More
PORTABLE EDIBLES / do indigenous dishes lose something in transit, or is it us
By Larry Levine – You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy. Or in my case, you can take the boy out of Brooklyn … But what happens when you take the Chicago Dog out of Chicago, or the baguette out of Paris, or the... Read More
FEELING MY OATS / funny and serious facts about oatmeal
By Larry Sheingold – This is about oat groats. Not haute groats, which sounds the same but connotes groats more chic than just oats. This is groats vs. grotesque. The difference between one of nature’s perfect foods and the junk food McDonalds and others make... Read More
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