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Aleppo Shrimp Fettuccine

It’s strange to hear Eros Ramazzotti sing his songs in Spanish. Oh, sure, the quintessential Italian rock star still has that big round voice with its soaring crescendos and the quirky clipped lyrics. But somehow – in the Spanish version – his passion is tempered. Well there you go: I guess not all things Italian […]

Buttery Pizza Dough

Here’s a baker-friendly pizza dough that doesn’t stick to your hands, even in the early stages of kneading. This dough has butter in it, which along with a bit of sugar, makes it richer than the average pizza dough. I love how clean it makes the whole process.

While I originally developed this dough as […]

Back to the Fire: Pear Pecan Pizza

The timing of an email from my local clean air agency was uncanny. At the very moment I had lit my first fire in weeks the atmosphere turned on me. From the eerie stillness in the air that hung around our back porch, the too-strong fragrance of my barely burning fire, and the layered fabric […]

Truffle Honey with Brie at the Italian Market in Philly

We were ogling the biggest provolone I’d ever seen – hundred pound cheeses that hung in heavily roped tubes – when a great booming voice startled us.

“Hey, you two!” A fleshy, bespectacled guy glared at us from behind the counter. “If all you’re gonna do is stand there shooting the bull.” …I was totally […]

Peri Peri Chicken Soup

My son’s latest regimen threw me for a loop last week. With the apparent blessing of all other 13-year-old boys on the world wide gaming web, my former meatatarian has been living on a steady diet of cinnamon toast crunch cereal, cilantro/jalapeno hummus and pita chips. I’ve learned to expect this dietary behavior from my […]

Peri Peri Chicken

If I didn’t know for sure, I’d have said that the English cousins were fading. In the wan light of the massively scaffolded hulk of Victoria Station, being retrofitted high above the comings and goings of the kingdom’s masses, I thought I saw them – just for a second – struggle to keep their young […]

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