MICHELE KAYAL, For The Associated Press When he was about 12, Hugh Acheson's mom went through a cooking phase: recipes from magazines, nice pots and pans, and exciting new dishes, like her signature chicken piccata. "It had that tenderness and crispness and this very simple, but very bouncy sauce," says ...
I love getting packages in the mail, because they're usually food-related! And one I received recently was no exception. It contained a generous sampling — for marketing purposes — of Almondina cookies, which are similar to very thin biscotti. They have only 30 calories per cookie, feature nutritious almonds, are ...
Today is Yom HaShoah [YOHM hah-shoh-AH], Holocaust Remembrance Day. To say that this is a day of great solemnity within the Jewish community is an understatement, truly, of indescribable proportion. While it might seem frivolous to tie food into an occasion of such seriousness and significance, please trust that I don't ...
Elvis Presley was noted for many things, among them his beautiful baritone, his white jumpsuits, his gyrations and his beloved grilled peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Since I obsess about food, let's focus on those sandwiches, shall we? This is my final entry into Project PB&J — a contest for food ...
Most people think that macaroons are chewy spherical cookies made with coconut. But this is only one variation on the theme. Macaroons are actually more generic — they're cookies made with beaten egg whites and sugar, with either ground nuts or coconut stirred in before baking; they don't usually contain ...