Growing up, soups were the foundation of most lunches and suppers, and my brothers and I loved them. Well, that is except during the blazing temperatures of the summer when my Mother still made her soup, and we ate them, complained like children, even into our teens, but we ate them and really, we loved […]
Soups
Episode 64: Holiday Cooking with Jacques Pépin
The great paradox of the holiday season for me has always been the way joy and stress walk hand in hand as we traverse the short days of November and December. In our never ending quest to find “joy”, our intrepid producer Cindy Papish Gerber suggested we reach out to legendary chef Jacques Pépin to see […]
Fear and Loathing in Las Kitchen
There are two types of people; those who cook and those who do not cook. I am one who cooks; my wife, Karen, is one who does not. I blame my wife’s lack of culinary skills on the most likely transgressor; her mother. My Mother-in-law never learned how to cook so she never passed the […]
Episode 54: Food and Cooking
Having spent an afternoon with some of New Haven’s most notable chefs, I got sense that the biggest mistake we make when selecting our food is a lack of mindfulness. Jason Sobocinski of Caseus (and of host restaurant Park Central Tavern) spoke about moderation – and the need to “…be focused on what you’re putting […]
What’s your “go to meal”?
Everyone has one: the quick, easy delicious dinner, and we had a lot of fun batting ours around during this week’s editorial meeting. (In a perfect world, they’re all healthful, easy to prepare, and go nicely with a buttery chardonnay. For Duo, the the on-the-go architect, the solution comes in the form of the pre-cooked […]
What’s your favorite healthy summer meal?
I have written before about one of the many banes of my existence: figuring out what to serve for dinner. Oh, and it also seems wise to think about the summer meal in a way that doesn’t require us to heat the oven to the “gates of hell” setting. You’ve GOT to have something to […]