I was lucky to find a group of college housemates who were just as food obsessed as I am. We baked bread, we created a full Thanksgiving feast, and we even brewed beer. This was on top of our hectic senior schedules. We called ourselves the BlueVic, even inventing an adjective bluevicing. Bluevicing: to engage [...]
Oh the glory of being glutinous! The grey days of San Diego fall have rolled in and my desire for sweets and comforts have rolled in with it. I have a problem making decisions. I'm that annoying girl who makes the waiter keep coming back, because she can't decide what to order. The other day [...]
For some of you this may sound extreme, but prepare to have your mind blown. Cauliflower is a miracle vegetable that among other things can imitate pizza crust when prepared properly. Now, I have made a couple of versions of this, and I find that it works better if there is a little flour [...]
I could make some self-deprecating comment about the status of my social life since moving back from Italy, but I won't. All I can say is that, over a year out of college, I am coming to understand the beauty of the friend date. "Friend Date: a situation in which two friends partake in activities [...]
Ok, so they are not in the shape of animals and they don't have those fancy little tags you were never supposed to remove, but these are edible. Better yet, they are soft and chocolatey, the perfect cookie bar. Even better, they are made with beans!!!! A few of you may have stopped reading at [...]
Zuppa di pesce, cioppino, bouillabaisse, burrida de raya, suquet de peix. They all are in the fish stew genre, but what makes them different? Many Americans believe cioppino to be Italian for its Italian name. They are wrong, at least partially. Cioppino is in fact a Californian invention, and San Francisco can take full credit [...]
You know that old phrase an apple a day keeps the dr. away? Well, it seems that coffee is the new apple. It’s no secret that coffee addiction is extremely common in the United States. Most of my generation grew up with the idea that drinking too much coffee is bad. I remember tasting the [...]
Having recently eaten at a raw food restaurant, I was fascinated by the creative dessert options. It seemed impossible to me to eat anything other than fruit, vegetables, and nuts; which I believe would get boring after about two days, or for the less controlled, five hours. I was awed and inspired by the creativity I [...]
Do you Love chocolate? Could you live without it? Do you find your cravings for chocolate hard to resist? Does chocolate rule your life? Technically chocolate has less potentially mood-altering substances than broccoli, but many jokingly refer to themselves as chocoholics. What is it then about chocolate that makes it so addicting? As I have [...]
Have you ever been transported to India by a single bite of shrimp saag or to southern Spain with a nibble of paella? I have. Each time I have a life-changing meal, my inner chef fires off the questions. What's in this? Why are the flavors perfect? How can I replicate this at home? Over [...]
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