Last spring I traveled to the Finger Lakes region of New York researching a cover story on beef I wrote for the September 30 issue of Wine Spectator. (Yes, they do raise cattle there!). On way to the farm of Jeff Rosenkrans (they call them cattle farms, not ranches in…
Recipe: Chestnut and Celery Root Soup How to Get Chestnuts Online We think of chestnuts as a quintessential American holiday food, but chestnut flour was made many centuries ago by ancient Greeks, and later by the Romans, who used chestnut meal in place of cornmeal to make polenta. Wild chestnuts…
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2 tablespoons butter 1 medium onion (about 5 ounces) cut into one-fourth-inch dice 4 ounces leeks, white part only, cut into one-fourth-inch dice 1 green apple, peeled, cored and cut into one-fourth-inch dice 12 ounces fresh peeled or frozen chestnuts 1 rib of celery, cut into one-fourth-inch dice One-half pound…
When it comes to pairing wines with holiday foods, Thanksgiving presents the ultimate challenge. The problem is not the turkey but everything else that goes with it. For example, Dorothy Gaither and John Brecher, former wine columnists for the Wall Street Journal, wrote on more than one occasion that older…
With Recipes For: Pumpkin Pecan Torte Pumpkin Ravioli with Parmesan-Sage Cream Pumpkin Risotto Every October for the past 32 years, the hills of Half Moon Bay, California come alive with the color of orange, a sea of over 3,000 tons of pumpkins. Pumpkin mania transforms this quaint coastal town into…