Chinese Noodles Recipe

I'm sure Asian cooking guru Jaden of Steamy Kitchen would cringe if she saw this noodle recipe, but I can't help it. It was my go-t...

Cooking with Amy on View from the Bay!

Last week I was on View from the Bay and you can watch me demonstrate a recipe with only three ingredients! Ok, it has four if you count th...

The Sweet Life in Paris: Book Review

I know why David Lebovitz gets inundated with questions from people planning trips to Paris. I know why perfect strangers want to visit him...

Frommer's 500 Places for Food & Wine Lovers

I would love to tell you about the decadent and exotic trips I have planned this year. But my only travel plans are as follows--a trip to Se...

More Chow Tips!

Here are two more Chow Tips--one about how to get more juice and peel from lemons and another about extending the life of fresh herbs . ...

Bittersweet: Book Review

It's Mother's Day and I can't think of a more fitting tribute than Bittersweet:Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen . Lots of &q...

Apricot Stuffed Pork Loin Recipe

A few years ago I discovered a wonderful mustard at the Fancy Food Show. I wrote about it and not long after it won the gold prize at the N...

Chow Tips starring me!

I could spend hours surfing over at Chow.com . It's that hip food site that was briefly a magazine. It includes not just recipes but blo...

Tea Together Jams: Favorite Things

Some people don't like receiving product samples, but I don't mind. Of course I'm pretty fussy about what I'll consider and ...

Divina Cucina's Recipes: Cookbook review

Can you imagine a cookbook with ingredients but no measurements? My cookbook that I got from the school I attended in Florence many years a...