Albacore tuna is one of the world’s most highly prized fish. It flourishes in temperate and tropical oceans as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Canned albacore is one of the iconic pantry staples worldwide. It’s the star ingredient in France’s famed Salade Niçoise. It accompanies students and parents alike in lunch bags as tuna salad […]
There are numerous claims on who invented and sold the first “Corny Dog“. Hot dogs on a stick, dipped in a cornmeal batter and deep-fried have numerous names as well: pogo, dagwood dog, wobo, pluto pup, mercury mutt. I grew up enjoying a yearly fix of Fletcher’s Corny Dogs at the annual State Fair of […]
The martini is perhaps the most romanticized and bastardized alcoholic wallop ever invented. Among famous martini aficionados are Winston Churchill, FDR, Ernest Hemingway, Cary Grant and the fictional James Bond who preferred his “shaken, not stirred” and with vodka. H. L. Mencken once called the martini “the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.” […]
Joy Pronunciation: joi Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French joie, from Latin gaudia, plural of gaudium, from gaudēre to rejoice; probably akin to Greek gēthein to rejoice Date: 13th century 1 a : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : delight b […]
I first tasted smoked trout when we lived in Baltimore. At a farmers’ market near our home, owners of the Metropol Café had a booth where they served all kinds of smoked seafood as well as cheeses. I remember the wonderful aroma and flavor of the smoked trout. One of the two women had gone […]