Egging You On: Sourcing Great Eggs
Great food always starts with great foodstuffs. My readers in Europe, and many other parts of the world may not know why I’m on about sourcing your eggs. In most parts …
Tomato: A Love Story
The world L-O-V-E-S tomatoes! There are at least 10,000 subspecies of tomatoes out there. Even though it has been adopted by Italy as a national food, they were late …
Finding the Sweet Spot of Our Top Toxic Treat: Sugars & Fake Sugars
Humans love sugar. Our brains are wired to crave it. Too much of anything is a bad thing, though. We consume a lot of processed sugars, particularly in the …
Masters of the Heat: Using Chilis in Your Cooking
Chiles can do all kinds of amazing things for your food. Understanding all of the amazing variations of the flavors and heat of the world’s chilis and the science behind …
Buying Better Butter
Grass. If you want great butter, feed cows grass. The milk and cream come out that much sweeter and richer. Pasture-raised cows produce superior milk. That also means that …
Green Heroin: How to Buy Addictive Hatch New Mexican Chiles
I have something to confess: I am horribly, horribly addicted… To Hatch green chiles! I’m not alone. There are hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans (That square state next to …