by Kitty | Aug 30, 2012 | Media Room
Happy 100th Birthday Julia Child! This month, the culinary world is celebrating what would have been Julia’s 100th birthday. The occasion calls for sharing my own “Julia” memories. As a novice food writer, I pitched a story on Julia to a local magazine a...
by Kitty | Dec 15, 2011 | Food Articles
Joyeuses Fêtes and Happy Holidays! (to paraphrase a Moroccan proverb) To each of you, I send a box filled with sesame seeds. Each seed representing one hundred wishes for peace, health, and happiness in 2012 Bonne Année, Bon Appétit and...
by Kitty | Oct 14, 2011 | The Kasbah Chronicles
October 2011 Nothing surprised me more two or three years ago, than to learn from one of my “foodie” cousins in Paris, that “Alloween” (with silent “h”, sic) had taken root in France. Dozens of sites initiated novices to la soirée...
by Kitty | May 4, 2011 | Food Articles
A New Way to Cook with Fava Beans! Leaves included! Some of you may know of my taste for fresh fava beans, that most underrated bean, at least among US cooks. Fava beans always come to mind at this time of the year, especially around Easter and Passover....
by Kitty | Jan 11, 2010 | Food Articles
I feel so sorry for my citrus trees. The weather has been so mercurial that they can’t tell if it’s summer, Fall, or spring. We have had several heat waves at the oddest times, which has spurred fruit to ripen prematurely perhaps, and in doing so,...
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