Try recipes for these Thanksgiving sides, including Oyster Casserole
This year’s Thanksgiving, pandemic style, has helped me sharpen my math as I pare down traditional recipes for just the two of us. Dividing a recipe for four in half is pretty...
This year’s Thanksgiving, pandemic style, has helped me sharpen my math as I pare down traditional recipes for just the two of us. Dividing a recipe for four in half is pretty...
Like a lot of you, I’m eating way too much bread these days. It’s comfort food, and, much like other carbohydrate-rich things, it tends to pack on the pounds. I’ve gained 5...
I think today’s shrimp stew recipe originated in Spain, discovered by me when I was there last year to learn about saffron— where it came from and how it was used. The...
Loving Lozere: Least-populated part of France a great destination for solitude and long walks My seatmate was losing it. Trembling from head to toe, she was dripping with sweat and gasping for...
Still the cultural and religious center of Spain, Toledo once was the country’s capital. Because the hilly small city dozed off the grid for decades, it’s remarkably well-preserved and retains the imprint...
I’d hoped a visit to Consuegra for the annual Saffron Rose Festival would help me learn why this spice is considered more valuable than gold. Not far from Toledo, directly south of...
Developing recipes is one of the more challenging aspects of my work here at The News-Herald. It’s an even bigger challenge when the dishes originated in another country and I am dealing...
Step into Monet’s garden at Giverny and enter a living work of art by the father of Impressionism. Claude Monet was in his 40s and already a well-known painter when he established...
Charmless strip shopping lines many multi-lane highways, and resorts — such as Disney’s Grand Floridian — are often the only places attempting to recreate elements of the past. Unless you look hard,...
William the Conqueror was crowned there in 1066, and Westminster Abbey has been the scene of every English coronation since then. It’s been the backdrop for royal weddings and the final resting...
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