Food

I was watching a late movie, one of those Edwardian things from the BBC with a lovely young governess rushing through dim passages with a candle, her taffeta skirts making a delicious rustle, the handsome lord of the manor— a ...

Growing up in an Italian neighborhood of Chicago, Palma Klein thought the whole world and everyone in it was Italian, and was very surprised to discover otherwise when she ventured out.

Mostly, these days, I get e-mail instead of letters in the post. Often they ask for recipes, which I’m happy to supply, and sometimes they furnish me with new ones.

The year 1992 was a very good one for local glass artist Stan Saran. Gulfshore Life’s Annual Design Guide of Southwest Florida profiled him as an outstanding artist, and Cooks magazine featured one of his fanciful accessory pieces, a replication ...

PBS recently carried a program about farmers’ markets which started me thinking about how many I’ve visited here and abroad. I always love the museums and cathedrals and other tourist attractions, but high on my list is the local market.

Local stores recently featured fresh figs from California, and I turned some into my favorite jam. Too bad they come to market so seldom.

There used to be a television show on which contestants were handed large brown bags of groceries and allowed an hour to prepare a meal with them. Such a task faces competitors for the Certified Master Chef award at the ...

Somebody once convinced me to get up at the crack of dawn to send my family off with a good breakfast, even when I had to turn around and hit the road to work myself.

The consensus among professionals today is that the best restaurant in the country is the French Laundry in Napa Valley, California.

Andy DeFino is a popular barber on the island, and his wife Evelyn is known as a hard-working ice cream scooper as well as steady volunteer at the Bargain Basket. Andy does the cooking, though he admits that Evelyn can ...

My friend Doris Reynolds, Naples historian and food writer, once told me that she would bar the door with her body if burglars tried to take her food processor.

José Badia left Spain in 1960 for Miami and new business opportunities, and formed a partnership in a hardware store there.

Judy Perez and I were reminiscing about the fall of 1996 when she and her husband Arturo took over the space formerly occupied by a catering service and small restaurant.

Historians are fond of saying that the defining event of the 20th century in our history was the second World War. In terms of how many Americans were affected, there is nothing to compare with it. Certainly nothing was more ...

I know I’ve told the story of a friend who said he hated asparagus, artichokes and avocados because nothing that color could possibly taste good. Well, many of us think he got it wrong, but still there are people who ...