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Invite a Suisse Romand to your home for dinner and serve them pasta? Try again. Pasta for the French-speaking Swiss is the equivalent of the American sandwich. It’s a quick, easy, mostly lunchtime meal– and it’s definitely not for guests. Well, so they say… Pasta can be fancy though. And who better to deck it out than […]
I always think I’m going north. Fortunately though, according to Google, supplementing your diet with blueberries stimulates brain cell growth in the hippocampus– the part of your brain responsible for memory and sense of direction. What the heck, might as well try it. Right? Blueberries come from New Jersey. Well, kind of. Native Americans used blueberries […]
I know, this is so un-American of me. Most Americans (and Britons, at least from what I gather from watching Come Dine with Me) are averse to eating anything besides chicken, beef and fish. Definitely filet of fish, though, we all know nobody wants an eyeball looking up at them. But here on the Continent, things […]
I guess since I live abroad I’m kind of known for these closing dinners. I’m coming home, going away, celebrating a belated birthday, celebrating something I missed, celebrating just because…well, who really needs an excuse to go to a nice dinner? Not I. So this time I decided to have the last meal of my stay in […]
I was with a certain Swiss on my last trip to the US a couple of months ago. And oh how glad I was to be there the first time he discovered crab cakes. From that point on, I couldn’t escape them for the remainder of our two week vacation. It’s a crab cake obsession […]
This is one of my favorite Italian recipes for entertaining. It’s a one pot deal…or two pots if you decide to serve it on a bed of polenta as I usually do. Cinghiale (pronounced chin-gya-lay), or wild boar, isn’t something we would normally eat in the US or in Switzerland for that matter. But that’s why […]
Pope Francis had said earlier this month that the one thing he really missed about life before the Vatican was being able to walk into a pizzeria….to just enjoy his pizza. Ahhhh the simple things. Enzo Cacialli, a dedicated Neapolitan pizzaiolo, tried to do his best at making the Pontiff’s wish come true. In a courageous move […]
According to this post on Chowhound, the original recipe for Erie pepperoni balls is lost forever, no where to be found in the Googlosphere. Not to worry, though. My grandma is here to save the day. As much as I would like to be OK with making this recipe with frozen dinner rolls (thank you “barefootgirl”?) frozen […]
Ok, so it may not have been my less than favorable review a while back that prompted this place to close down. I most definitely did, however, predict the restaurants’ grim fate. I’m afraid I can’t say the same for our friends at NYMag. Kate Appleton begins her New York Magazine review with “The awning […]
I stopped for brunch this fine Saturday afternoon with my father and sister at one of Daniel’s Boulud’s Manhattan places, DB Bistro Moderne. Well the decor was definitely moderne. It looked like an upscale diner with fancy lamps and warm wooden tables . My first impression was that it was way too American to be one of […]
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