Here’s an interesting fact about me: I wake up early every morning to watch one hour of the Today Show. Some people find this weird and others don’t understand how I could ever sacrifice sleep for such an unnecessary task. While it initially started a year ago when I returned from Italy and jet lag had me waking up too…
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Fall means fig season, go fig-ure! (See what I did there?) This means some delicious fruit-filled snacks for those of us that are fig-natics. (Ok, I’ll stop.) I still have so many savory memories of just over a year ago, sitting on a rooftop in Positano eating local figs and looking out over the Mediterranean. I wish I could freeze that…
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As an American, I never get sick of pizza. I worked at a trattoria for six years and never tired of it. But now that I’m older and wiser and have been exposed to “skinnier” alternatives, I’m loving the trendy recipes of pizza crust made from vegetables. Cauliflower pizza crust is pretty darn good, and while there’s no substitute for the…
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This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend Taste Talks, a foodie conference in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. OpenTable had reached out to me about attending and as soon as I started reading about the event, I jumped at the chance! (For restaurants in NYC, check out OpenTable’s New York City restaurants page here!) My Food Enthusiast pass got me into…
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I was excited to get peaches in my CSA so that I could make a classic recipe that brings back memories of my childhood. My family used to love making peach melba with vanilla ice cream and raspberry sauce. Back then, we used canned peaches, but now adult-me knows there are more gourmet variations of fruit. One of these is grilled fruit,…
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