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In keeping with the Mexican theme, we thought that this would be just perfect for this Saturday morning’s exceptional eggs!  With thick crusty bread, fresh baguettes if you’re in Paris, the local bakery if you’re …

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Ceviche is a South American dish that originated in Peru but today almost every country in that part of the world has it’s own recipe. The fish or shellfish is marinated in either lemon, lime …

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Nowhere else  in the world does one find chocolate-makers that equal the  passion of the French – they make love to chocolate while the Swiss and the Belgians create and  have always been  the pioneers …

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This weekend will be hot in the Southern hempisphere and relatively cooler in the North but no matter where we are, there’s never enough time and we seem to be rushing wherever we go. It’s …

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The Venetians love for baccalà was born out of the misfortune of a few Venetian ships that were stranded in the Lofoten islands in Norway for a whole winter in 1431.  A merchant ship, sailing under …

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The first people in Italy were the Etruscans, who were there about 900 BC and were planting millet by the time the Greeks and later the Romans were there!  They had even invented a rolling pin. …

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Béchamel sauce is, probaly, the most used sauce on earth – albeit often simply to hide something truly horrible. It’s one of those things that we all know by memory and usually make without …

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The apple (Malus domestica) is part of the rose family and originated in an area known as Almaty which is in Kazakhstan. One of the most cultivated tree fruits, the apple was considered a hybrid …

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When one hears the word cheese, in the gourmet sense of the word, it is always Europe that springs to mind immediately – the countries from the so-called New World ignored. Maybe it’s time we …

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We look at the life saving properties of spices that also improve our food and we have a recipe or two to spice up the tale. The first evidence we have of the use of …