Food, Photography and Bon Mots
Guilty food pleasures. Mine are Ranch Dressing, Cheetos and refried beans. Yours? And about that Ranch Dressing… The recipe here is a homemade version of the iconic dressing introduced in 1950 by Steve Henson under the name Hidden Valley Ranch. Henson was a former…
Summer salads are a “thing” at my house. Cool and light after a hot day, a salad is the perfect way to wind down the day and ease into a cool evening with a good book and a sweet pup. Here is a…
Bulgogi? It’s a Korean specialty. Koreans have been making the classic dish for hundreds of years—sometimes grilled and sometimes in a broth. In recent times, the dish has become rockstar-popular on Korean and international menus. Bulgogi roughly translates to “fire meat.” Although the dish is…
Every month Blue Cayenne features one post from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. Here is a Russian Salad recipe. You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one of the categories at the…
Thinking about what you eat and why you eat it? Wondering what a really healthy diet might look like? Welcome to the world of Mark Bittman. Bittman is the Special Advisor on Food Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman’s School of Public Health. He’s written thirty…
She was so gifted a writer that W.H. Auden said of her: “I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose.” She was so elegantly beautiful that the Dadaist artist Man Ray begged to photograph her, fascinated as he was…
Look at those beautiful curves and the saucy way the leaves curl. And that ombre color palette… Wow! There’s no way around it; this is the Marilyn Monroe of cabbages. (Or the Kim Kardashian. You pick.) In addition to its radiant beauty, we also are…
My good friend Carol gave me a delightful gift for my birthday— grow-your-own oyster mushrooms. As it turned out, the gift triggered my long-suppressed American Gothic. You know…the farm, the pitchfork, the Willie Nelson concert. There I was every day for a couple of…
Every month Blue Cayenne features one post from our archive of more than 350 recipes. Here is an Eggplant Gratin in Parmesan Custard recipe. You don’t want to miss this great recipe…again. Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive? Just click one of the…
What is the world’s largest edible bean? Look that question up on the Internet and you are in for a trip down the rabbit hole. There is a Guinness record for the World’s Tallest Bean plant. (46.3 feet/2003.) There is a record for “The…
