Posted in Europe, Genoa, Genovese, Italian, Italy, Recipe, Recipes, appetizer, batter, broiled, chick peas, chickpeas, easy meal, flour, lower fat, pine nuts, rosemary, sage, salad, salt, savory, street food, travel, vegetables, vegetarian, vinaigrette on Jul 30th, 2008
The Italian region of Liguria is famous for its dramatic landscape of mountains plunging into crystal clear waters, and narrow terraced fields leading down to tiny, colorful villages precipitously perched on the edges of cliffs of which the Cinque Terre (five lands) of Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore in La Spezia province […]
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Posted in Garlic, Lebanese, Recipe, Recipes, chick peas, cinnamon, food, lamb, language, mint, pine nuts, pita, pomegranate, pressure-cooker, restaurant, yogurt on Nov 12th, 2007
After my best friend, Shannon, first moved back home after our fun ’snowboard/ski bunny’ post-college years slacking off in Breckenridge, Colorado, I visited her and she took me to eat at a place with a cuisine I had never eaten before - Lebanese. We went to Lebanese Taverna in Arlington, VA, one of six locations […]
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Posted in Asturias, Chorizo, Food Commentary, Potato, Recipe, Recipes, Spain, cheap meal, chick peas, chickpeas, culture, easy, easy meal, food, ham, healthy, hearty, kale, meal, quick meal, sausage, soup, tourism, travel on Oct 11th, 2007
Several years ago, on a trip to northern Spain I found myself in the small town of Santillana del Mar in the region of Cantabria on a cold and rainy night. Outside the hotel, a herd of dismal-looking goats shivered together in the lee of a thorn bush as it got dark, and all I […]
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