Who doesn't love to eat salad all summer long? I like to have raw vegetables somewhere on the table at any meal, but in the dog days of summer, not cooking your veg and eating it too is just too good to pass up. Lately, we have been obsessed with Shepherd's Salad, or Coban Salatasi …
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In My Kitchen July 2014
Well, I've just blown back in to the garden from Rome, with spoils to show for it. Only we demolished a lot of it before it even occurred to me that it was a new month already (the boys have made fast work of a hefty chunk of Parmesan). Do you enjoy poking around on …
Treasure Hunt
When I was in high school at St. Stephen's School in Rome, we had an annual "treasure hunt" in which groups of students would be sent to all corners of the city, led by obscure clues. 21 years later, on the occasion of the school's 50th anniversary, I found myself setting off on a treasure …
Grape flowers… and leaves!
The first time I visited the land that was to become our garden, I remember walking past a tall pine tree with a wild grape clambering up its side. There were red grapes on the vine, ready to eat, and we picked some. It seemed like such a lovely, generous thing to be presented with. …
In My Kitchen June 2014
I've missed a few months, in both senses of the word. I know that we all have busy lives and it is just a matter of claiming the time to do things like sit down a write. Happily, it is pouring rain in the garden today, so I am sitting in the outdoor kitchen listening …
Garden Correspondent 