Friday, September 28, 2001
Wine Buy: Ravenswood Zinfandel Vintner’s Blend 1999
Food Talk sommelier Carol Berman refers to the Ravenswood Zinfandel Vintner’s Blend 1999 as “entry level” Zinfandel. That’s for several reasons, not least of which is the price, $10.99 to $12.99 a bottle, which is much lower than winemaker Joel Peterson’s other Ravenswood Zinfandel bottlings. [more]
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Becky's Regrettable But Delicious Meatloaf
Becky Bennett, the 25-year-old producer of “Food Talk,” my radio program, came into work the other day raving about the meatloaf she had made the night before. Beck is not much of a cook, so I was pleased that she’d made any effort beyond chicken breast on her George Forman grill. [more]
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Greens, Potato and Feta Pie
It has been so long since I last saw today’s “Food Talk” guest that I almost forgot how beautiful she is. Jeanne Lemlin jokingly attributes her easy-on-the-eyes aging to her rather vegetarian diet. Author of several wonderful vegetarian cookbooks including her newest, Vegetarian Classics, Jeanne is also a very busy mother and wife. [more]
Sunday, September 23, 2001
Provencal Tuna Steaks
If you don’t like fashionably raw tuna, not just sushi but the “seared” fish that restaurants serve, you will love this recipe. It turns out fully cooked fish that is neither dry nor "fishy.” I think it is moister and better tasting when made a day ahead, so it is even a good fish dish for a dinner party, or for any other reason that you want to have dinner prepared ahead. [more]
Friday, September 21, 2001
I Get E-Mail
Here are some questions sent to me via e-mail at WOR.710.com. Pay attention, you may have the same question. [more]
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Perfect Hard-Cooked Eggs and Hungarian Egg and Potato Casserole
The following two recipes used to be on the WOR web-site, www.WOR710.com. That site no longer offers my recipes, however, so I thought, for the record, they should be here, at www.thefoodmaven.com. They are incredibly popular. [more]
Sunday, September 16, 2001
Jewish New Year Recipes
The Jewish New Year starts tomorrow night, a two-day celebration for which the best china, crystal, silver, table linens – everything the best, including the most festive foods, are called for at the table. [more]
Friday, September 14, 2001
Wonder Loaf, A Marble Cake
Last week, when Doris Schecter, owner of My Most Favorite Dessert Comapany, a kosher bakery and café at 120 W. 45th St. in Manhattan, was a guest on Food Talk, a listener called to ask about a particular marble cake that used to be made at many Jewish bakeries. I knew it well. Doris did, too, but the recipe is not in her book, My Most Favorite Dessert Company Cookbook: Delicious Pareve Baking Recipes. [more]
Thursday, September 13, 2001
Bon Appetit Awards & Southern Biscuits
I know you will pardon me for not putting this diary entry up earlier, and for describing at such a sad, frightening time the splendid Bon Appétit dinner and awards ceremony at Le Cirque on Monday night. I have received some emails and phone calls urging me “to carry on as usual” because people want some reassurance that life can and will continue as usual. (Naturally, it never will be the same; civilization will never be the same.) So here’s what would have been posted Tuesday if not for the horrific happenings of the day. [more]
Sunday, September 9, 2001
My Most Favorite Brownies, Etc.
Doris Schecter started her business for the same reason many of you would like to start businesses, because your friends tell you that you are a great baker, or saucier, or make the best coriander-hyssop dip that they have ever tasted. [more]
Thursday, September 6, 2001
A Simple Apple Cake
When I was teaching Neapolitan cooking at the Culinary Institute of America last spring, I met Elizabeth Beaugard, the mother of one of the students in the Cucina e Cultura program, J.J. Beaugard, a young woman chef. Being a good mommy, Elizabeth could not resist bringing along a little something for the students to eat early in the morning, while they were preparing to listen to me talk and to cook with them for several hours. It was this delicious, simple Jewish-style apple cake, which she adapted from “Matzah Magic,” a cookbook published by the Beth El Sisterhood of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. [more]
Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Wine Buy: Cotes de Rhone white
The Rhone Valley of France, which is in the southeast of the country, is known mainly for its red wines, which is why I was surprised when I saw that Carol Berman’s wine buy selection this week was a white wine labeled Cotes-du-Rhone. Indeed, the front label on the bottle doesn’t even indicate that the wine is white. You have to go to the back label to see that this Guigal Cotes du Rhone 1999 is blanc. [more]
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
Amazing Soy
Amazing Soy is Dana Jacobi’s second book on the subject, which pretty much makes her the culinary expert on soy products. If you know my attitudes at all, you know that I don’t care how good a food is for you, how much it will lower your cholesterol, prevent cancer, etc. If it doesn’t taste good, if I can’t enjoy it, I’m not going to eat it. I know, however, that soy can taste good, and/or that you can eat soy without even knowing it. Dana is a friend of long-standing and I have eaten many of her soy creations happily, joyfully, and sometimes not even being able to detect the soy in it. [more]
