I spent the better part of a recent weekend styling test shoots with Cleveland photographer Ricky Rhodes. We worked in the urban comfort of Kalman & Pabst Photo Group. The shoot was natural ingredient and whole-foods focused, and we kicked the session off by by getting up close and personal with affable bunches of varicolored [...]
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Glorious Granola from Eleven Madison Park
January 14, 2012 – 4:01 pm
A meal at Eleven Madison Park is captivating – an exquisite parade of culinary jewels to be savored mouthful by grinning mouthful, and the delight doesn’t stop when the last trace of dessert is cleaned from the plate.
Yes, Soup For (Just) You, When You “Serve Yourself”
April 12, 2011 – 11:40 am
Sweet Potato Soup with Chickpeas, Chorizo and Kale (here I used the vegan chorizo by Field Roast), from, Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One, Joe Yonan If I were permitted only one word to describe Washington Post Food Editor Joe Yonan’s first book, Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One, what [...]
Taming the “beast of burdock”
May 21, 2010 – 8:00 pm
Read my latest edition of The Spice Trade at Ohio Authority, Ohio’s premier online magazine.
Artichoke Therapy
April 23, 2010 – 12:46 pm
My mother always told me that she found the act of cleaning and preparing vegetables therapeutic. At the time of that statement, as I watched her remove hundreds of tiny, hair-like roots from a huge mound of creamy white bean sprouts destined for a hot blast in the wok, I didn’t quite get it. More [...]
Warm up With a Spicy Dish, Hot Flow and a Cleveland Yoga giveaway!
March 5, 2010 – 9:41 am
Returning to the brutal cold and snow of my Motherland, Cleveland, after spending a lazy sunkissed week in the Mexican Yucatan was just plain old rude re-entry for this self-proclaimed freeze baby. Brrrrr. One snow angel at the first deep snowfall and I am DONE. Once home, I dropped the backpack that carried floaty little [...]
Modern Times
January 28, 2010 – 9:32 am
As we shared farewell hugs before I hopped back into the Jeep headed home to Cleveland from Charlotte, my cousin’s wife, Tamara, showed me a favorite recipe for braised tempeh and declared, “You do know if I’m going to recommend something with a such long list of ingredients the dish must truly be delicious.” Point taken. [...]
Broccoli Tahini Spread
December 9, 2009 – 2:21 pm
The holiday season beckons – bedecked and bejeweled with limitless temptation for overindulgence and overdoing – food, drink, social activities, work, and if you are someone like me who has a difficult time saying “enough!”, it also arrives with ample opportunity for self-neglect. Running on foods that don’t necessarily feed the body, dehydration, not getting [...]
Beer me a Season
August 8, 2009 – 1:45 pm
Indian-spiced lamb blade chops, spiced eggplant and crispy kale. Yesterday while at market to replenish my stash of the Magic Hat Brewing Co. seasonal beety Wacko, I discovered Wacko is done and in its place was a harbinger of fall – Roxy Rolles amber ale (“Hoppy Autumn!”). Sigh. August has just arrived and it’s feeling [...]
