As always, what you are looking at is because my wife read about a soup called “Italian Penicillin” or “Sick Day” soup – delicious and incredibly healthy! Here’s what the recipe said: Creamy Pastina Soup✨ also called Italian Penicillin for… Read More ›
Cheers! One of the joys of living in New York City is exploring some of the 50,000+ restaurants of all shapes and sizes in the city: from the thousands of food carts that line the city streets to restaurants that… Read More ›
Celebrate Valentine’s Day With A Wedding Soup! I love making food for my wife Alex, and she loves Italian Wedding Soup – so why not make it during Valentine’s Day week? Italian Wedding Soup is named after the Italian phrase minestra maritata,… Read More ›
Time For A Hearty, Heathy Soup! It’s bitterly cold throughout much of the US, and with flu season well underway, my wife Alex asked me to make a healthy soup for the season – and found me a recipe that… Read More ›
SO MUCH SOUP LEARNING TO SHARE! Bear with me as I take you down some interesting culinary paths, beginning with the photo you see above. What that is – and how I got here is all because of my friend… Read More ›
I Try A New Sauce And Cooking Method In The Same Dish! I made this recipe during my “52 In 22 Cooking Challenge”, and I wanted to tackle it again, because it was a new cooking method AND a new… Read More ›
New York’s Most Unique Ceiling! How often do you go to a restaurant where 50,000 clay pipes hang above you? For this edition of “the oldest food in New York”, we are dining in the year 1885, when Keen’s restaurant… Read More ›
This Is A Bean Story That Became So Much More… Here’s how this culinary journey began. My wife Alex came across a recipe for soup – but not just any soup. She found one with a very unique aspect to… Read More ›
Dig Into This “Good Luck” Stew For 2026! Do you know what “Hoppin’ John” is? Well I didn’t for years, but thanks to my wife Alex, I learned that it’s a longtime tradition: you are supposed to make it on New… Read More ›
Welcome To Harry’s Bar In Venice! Yes, it may seem nondescript outside, but inside is one of the most legendary bars in the world – Harry’s Bar in Venice Italy opened in 1931 – and the 94 year-old institution is… Read More ›
Bite! Eat! Repeat! 