Montreal

On a whim, we picked Montreal for our August vacation. Why not? It’s full of great chefs, bakers, markets, and the wonderful colloquial Quebecois French. Honestly, we most wanted a chance to visit my good friend Domenico and his new family. It was a great trip...

Dinner With Domenico

My friend Domenico… how to describe him? It's hard to capture all the qualities that make him such a great friend. Especially around food. I often mention him in my posts on Stir The Pots. There's a reason. He's a man of food, whether cooking, baking...

Dinner At Domenico’s

Below are photos from a dinner hosted by my friend Domenico while visiting him in Rome. What a meal! Ranging from marvelous speck to  sublime smoked ricotta, freshly picked tomatoes from his garden, chile from his father's garden in Calabria… words...

Bread For Jonitin

Finally after all these years blogging with my partner here, Jonitin Field, yielding to his endless harping on my over-nuanced bread geekiness ("I kinda thought when I came to you with this idea, the idea was a food blog, not a bread blog – am I missing...