“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” - Omar Khayyam We have a house guest for Easter and amongst the things we had to eat were t...

“The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.” - Laura Esqui...

“Do you know the land where lemon trees are blooming, Where in the dark foliage, the golden oranges glow? A gentle wind blows from th...

“One day in winter, on my return home, my mother, seeing that I was cold, offered me some tea, a thing I did not ordinarily take. I decli...

“I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.” – L’Wren Scott   We sometimes need a little more substantial lunch than the fresh, seaso...

“In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.” - Robin Leach   We visited an Italian pastryshop the other day and I asked f...

“Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.” - verse 7 of Psalm 51: King JamesBible   Hyssopus officinalis or hyssop is a ...

Then dance must be its sweet dessert...   “The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat....

“I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.” – Woody Allen   It is Summer and we have harvested lots of zu...

“Everybody’s got their poison, and mine is sugar.” - Derrick Rose   I have a sweet tooth – no, perhaps I have several. Maybe even a mou...

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” - Alice Walker One o...

“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.” - Frank Lane   We were greeted the first day of Summer in Melbourne w...

“Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.” – Thomas Aloysius Dorgan   Artichokes are in sea...

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau   Fish is ...

“A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.” – Tahir Shah   Chermoula (Arabic: شرمولة‎‎) or charmoula is a marinade and dressing use...

“Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.” - Enrique Peña Nieto   Yesterday’s blog entry was about annatto and today I ...

“Barriga llena, corazón contento.” (Full stomach, happy heart) – Mexican proverb   I got this recipe from a friend of ours who gave us ...

“I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.” - Maya Angelou...