A Perfect Day for Fondue
With snow falling outside, what I really want right now is a cheese fondue. For more than 25 years, I had an annual ritual of making a cheese fondue using…
A Brief History of Pancakes
Since today is Shrove Tuesday and the traditional food of the day is pancakes, it seems appropriate to talk about their history. A pancake, in some form, has probably…
Ziti alla Genovese – from Naples!
Taking prime place as the first recipe with history to be featured is Zitialla Genovese, which hails not from Genoa but Naples, Campania, Italy. Maybe a little misleading, but behind…
Why Recipes with History?
If you have ever sat at a table in a restaurant, or at a friend's house, and been told the story of the recipe of what you are eating, you…