By Catharine L. Kaufman (a.k.a. The Kitchen Shrink) It’s a seed! It’s a protein! It’s SUPERFOOD! Imagine unpacking and listing the nutritional contents of a plant consisting of edible leaves and clusters of seeds commonly … Read More
Tomato: The Legendary Love Apple
Boosts Your Lycopene, Antioxidants, Vitamins & Attractiveness By Dina Eliash Robinson Artists As Gardeners Our famous friends, musicians and travel journalists Joanne (Giovanna) and Tony DiBona, are keeping us supplied with some of the most … Read More
Butternut Squash Soup Recipe— Easy & Equally Delicious Hot & Cold
By Dina Eliash Robinson Serendipity is my best friend in the kitchen. Especially when a vegetable intentionally omitted from my shopping list seduces me and changes my plans for next week’s menus. Which is exactly … Read More
Mating Game of Date Palms
By Catharine L. Kaufman (a.k.a. The Kitchen Shrink) Perhaps this column should be marked PG-13, since much of what’s said about the exotic fruit often called “tree candy,” cannot avoid a slightly suggestive tinge. Starting … Read More
Caviar Dreams — Still Possible on Shoestring Budget
By Catharine L. Kaufman (a.k.a. The Kitchen Shrink) & Dina Eliash Robinson By any name—caviar, fish-eggs or roe—this once abundant but now increasingly rare superfood is valued mostly by connoisseurs for its rich, delicately briny … Read More
Cinnamon: A Healing Spice And Its Mischievous Botanical Cousin
By Dina Eliash Robinson Valued since pre-Biblical times in Ceylon (today’s Sri Lanka) as a flavor-enriching spice and healing substance, “true” cinnamon (Cinnamonum verum—also identified by its provenance as Cinnamomum Zeylanicum) was priced 15 times … Read More
Pomegranate, The Wonderful Super Fruit
By Dina Eliash Robinson The aptly named California-grown variety of “Wonderful” pomegranate has earned its super fruit moniker by holding within its dark, purple-red skin a bounty of disease-fighting and health-supporting compounds. What’s more, while … Read More