Typical Parisian breakfast is a piece of baguette or small roll, croissant, brioche or fruit bun, jam or butter. Sweet pastries are called viennoiseries, as it was wrongly assumed that they came from Vienna. They are Parisian inventions for which puff or choux (cream or custard puff) pastry and great quantity of butter are used. ...

I know that the old ‘eat seasonal and local’ phrase has become an over-used mantra to some people, and I also know that this philosophy is a difficult one to stick by when you are struggling with a large family and little money. So I choose to use it wisely and with caution when teaching; ...

Adapted recipe from Julia Child’s Kitchen by Julia Child You will need: 24 chicken wings Marinade: Juice of 2 lemons 2 or 3 slices ginger pickled in sweet vinegar (or fresh ginger, shaved thin) 2 tbls. Soy sauce 1 tsp. dark sesame oil ½ tsp. thyme, oregano or Italian seasoning 2-4 cloves of garlic (finely minced) ¼ tsp. cracked peppercorns (or ground black pepper) Preheat oven ...

I’ve shared recipes on Torta Banawa and Torta Cebuana. My sister who is now based in Chicago shared me these torta recipes. Torta is quite a popular baked product in Cebu and all of Visayas. Here is a contribution from my sister: My managing editor at Filipinas Magazine, Gemma Nemenzo, is rarin’ to ...

Is there anything more simple and basic than taking some flour, water and yeast, pounding them together for a few minutes then whacking in the oven? Bread making has lost its way in the standard home over the years for the simple reason that ready made bread in all forms can be purchased reasonably cheap. So ...

‘Sour, said the fox about the rowan-berries’. This quote is from a fable of Aesop. A Greek author in the sixth century. The English interpretation is: ‘The grapes are sour anyway’. In Sweden the grapes have been replaced with rowan-berries because grapes don´t grow far north. It is easy to despise what you cannot get. The rowan-berries are ...