Neil Perry’s introduction to his upcoming new cookbook Easy Weekends is honest, personal and suits the book to a T! His hope in writing this lovely cookbook was “that this book helps you cook, inspires you to buy quality ingredients and makes you want to cook for your friends and family.” Yes thank you Mr. ...
Is breaking your traditions a good thing or a bad? Does it show adaptation and a willingness to embrace change or do we miss it like a part of us that has been broken off? For most of the last 10 years on New Years Eve my husband and I have reveled in our hotel ...
Happy New Year 2013 from yumandmore!! This is the view from my balcony in Frankfurt am Main Germany at 00:03 on Jan 1st 2013 – I have added some links and images to various images and links of what we and others were eating, doing, and seeing around the world at the same time! I ...
“CHANGE is a process not an event”, says Barbara Johnson in her publication “Splashes of joy in the cesspool of life”. In my mind Food Revolution Day is an event to kick off a process. A process to teach and show adults and children where food comes from, how it is made, why we should ...
It’s new, new, new! New home, new kitchen, new pots! The move went like a whirlwind – 6 weeks from the initial apartment visit to actually living in our new place. It was exhasting, in parts frustrating, definitely expensive as moving can be. But the best part is: I LOVE THE NEW APARTMENT! I love ...
Dear Readers, Foodies, Followers, Fans… yes all of you, Thank you for sharing the culinary and discovery world I viewed this year! I hope you had the holidays you expected and are feeling revived. Now it’s time to blow out this dusty old year and bring on the new. I’m ready for a change …. ...
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Our last few weeks have been filled with great travel destinations and exciting encounters with “old” and new friends. For a culinary point of view it has been a challenge both to our dieting goals and at times to our taste buds. Our first weekend back home in many weeks held so many chores but ...
Herfa, Germany In the week before we go, I’m a little nervous thinking about what I should cook, what the new friends that only my husband knows will be like, what type of food and cooking they like, if what I’m planning as a main course will go with their planned appetizer and dessert……. We ...
Having decided to go to Rhodes on Easter vacation in April, the pre-excitement got the better of me and I just had to have lamb and orzo to enhance the anticipation. Usually I marinate the lamb in oil, lemon juice, mashed garlic and rosemary, but I had wonderful bunches of fresh mint and cilantro so ...