If you don’t know what a Polish Paczki is, then now is the time to learn, especially since this is the day to eat them!
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Dresdner Stollen
Tomorrow is the Stollen Festival in Dresden, Germany. If you can’t be there, at least you can make this incredible Dresdner Stollen in your own kitchen!

Oktoberfest Hot German Potato Salad
Celebrate Oktoberfest with this warm and comforting Hot German Potato Salad. Serve with sausages, a variety of mustards, some beer, and you have a party!

Chinese Chicken Salad
Our heat wave is still ongoing, so you know what that means. Another day of a cold salad and not turning on the oven. How about a Chinese Chicken Salad?

Weekend Birthdays in the Culinary World
This weekend two culinary icons celebrated birthdays. Julia Child would have been 103 years old; Karl Fazer, age 149. Karl who, you say? Ask a Finn!

Italy, Part 5: Sicily
Feudo Principi di Butera is an estate that once belonged to royal families, even Sicily’s first prince. It is indeed still a noble place, and my favorite.

Italy Part 3: Masseria Altemura
Our trip to Zonin’s estate Masseria Altemura was to celebrate their inauguration. It was a grand party in every way!

Cooking in Mississippi
After many years of living in New York City, my youngest daughter has become a Southerner! Guess I need to learn some good Mississippi cooking!






