Chocolate, meet Beer. Now go mingle together. I've said before that I'm not a huge fan of most beers, but when I hear the words Chocolate and Beer Pairing, guess what: I become a converted...

We were on a train from Milan to Venice, and I had just finished reading Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant. I passed the book to my parents and my mom picked it...

A few months ago I whipped up a balsamic dressing so good, it made cabbage sexy. Okay, okay, so maybe my cabbage didn't turn out to be Bradley Cooper or Ryan Gosling, but you know...

One glance at the sign outside the glass doors. One look at the sparse interior, and the row of condiments at each table. One word of Tagalog floating from the next table's conversation, then...

What do you think of when you hear the word truffle? Do you think of ganache-filled chocolate concoctions? Silky dark chocolate truffles dusted in cocoa powder, sweet treats dipped in chocolate, and decadent, buttery...

Sometimes you get wrapped up listening to your Stevie Wonder station on Pandora, and you're twirling around in your new apron, and you're licking cookie batter from your fingers, thinking that these cookies are...

When one of my dear friends introduced me to The Hunger Games trilogy last year, I thought that the book will literally be about how to control my hunger - you know, with whole...

There's music from Jimmy Durante piped in, and if it's not him crooning, it's Frank Sinatra. Sometimes it's the Temptations, sometimes it's Frankie Valli. It's always old school at La Befana. The owner, Liam Lydon,...

April 18, 2012

Brunch at Catalyst

Banana bread. With dulce de leche. Was more than enough to make me want to go to Catalyst for brunch. Of course I didn’t need much convincing (or actually, my friends didn’t need more...

When I went to Italy a couple of years ago, one of the things I did not get to eat were polpette, or Tuscan meatballs. Which was too bad because I love meatballs. I've...