Fried Catfish Japanese Style

I am never going to pan fry cat fish in the Southern manner again. As much as I love the cornmeal-dredged classic recipe I grew up with, I have discovered that I prefer the Japanese way of pan-frying better. This is the method used to make tonkatsu–pan fried thin boneless pork cutlets with the most […]

Catering A Vegetarian Wedding With Local Food

When Sonia Marcus, the chair of the Communication Committee of the Ohio University Eco House, started planning her wedding, she decided that she wanted all of the food to not only be beautiful and delicious, but locally grown and produced as well. This choice fits perfectly with her own life philosophy of living as green […]

Seduction on a Plate: Fraises a l’Aziz

Inspiration for a new dish often strikes me in odd moments. Some flavor combinations come to me in dreams, if you can believe that. Others lay in wait in my subconscious mind and pop out in the midst of a conversation about an unrelated topic. The kernel of the idea for this appetizer, which consists […]

Athens Community Gardens Popularity Soaring

Last night while Kat was asleep on my lap, I decided to read the local newspaper online. I was thrilled to see the featured front page article was on the rapid growth in the popularity of Community Food Initiatives’ community gardens here in Athens. Garden plots allotted this year in the West Side gardens rose […]

Experimenting With White Whole Wheat Flour: Cherry Pie

I’ve been meaning to try baking with King Arthur Flour’s white whole wheat flour for quite some time. White whole wheat flour is ground from a different variety of wheat–hard white winter wheat, to be exact–than the usual whole wheat flour which comes from hard red winter wheat. Lacking the tannin that comes with the […]

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