Let’s Get Cookin’ to benefit Boys & Girls Club
The air is alive with the tantalizing aromas of sizzling meats, fragrant herbs, and savory sauces, wafting from tables where chefs meticulously prepare their culinary creations. Soft music drifts through the air, mingling with the hum of animated conversations and the...Cabernet Sauvignon: America’s most popular wine
Drink up! By David Setley A long, long time ago on a beautiful starry night in a vineyard in Bordeaux, France, a handsome red grape named Cabernet Franc saw a beautiful white grape named Sauvignon Blanc (cue the music). It was love at first sight and history in the...Cheese and Spinach Pie
By Chef Joseph Massaglia Although we celebrated Easter the first weekend in April, I want to share a favorite dish of mine which celebrates both Easter and spring. Also known as Torta Pasqualina, it was traditionally made with 33 layers of phyllo dough (the number of...Wines for Passover
Drink up! By David Setley In a few days, the Jewish holiday of Passover will begin. Although my culinary experience with Jewish celebrations has been limited to making challah and latkes around Hanukkah, I researched Passover and the traditional Seder dinner to better...Feasting for a cause
By Julia Train Anne Dice was a Peace Corps volunteer from 1990 to 1992 in a small, rural community, Los Cocos de Jacagua, in the Dominican Republic. Down there, her counterpart was a Dominican man named Mario Antoni Almonte. Dice called him her “Dominican dad.” “He...
