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Charred Pumpkin Soup: Feel the Burn! Boo! It’s Halloween. Which, in the blogosphere, means pumpkin recipes. I thought the trend had reached its zenith last year and I’d hoped to let the whole thing pass quietly. Which proves I’m a little bit ambivalent about pumpkins. But just a little ambivalent. In the end I decided I didn’t want to

Caraway Cookies with Ginger and Molasses I made spice cookies with what might be considered an unusual combination of flavors: molasses and caraway seeds. Yes caraway seed cookies. I love the pungent bite caraway seeds provide. It’s a common European spice that deserves more attention than it gets in my neck of the woods. I adapted these

Portuguese Wine in the Hollywood Hills This week was a twofer. I found myself clinking glasses with two world-class winemakers– the first was the illustrious Patrizia Felluga owner of Zuani Wine in Italy and the second was the award-winning ‘antipodean flying winemaker’ David Baverstock of Esparão and Quinta dos Murças wines in Portugal

Eating Stone Crab in Florida #VisitFlorida Paralithodes camtschaticus is most commonly known as Alaskan King Crab, or more simply as King Crab. But I prefer to call it by its lesser known but equally correct name — Stalin’s Crab. That’s because the real KING in the crab clan is Menippe mercenaria, the Florida Stone Crab. Somebody in the spe