I “retired” from teaching cooking classes in 2005, with one exception… I teach one class a year at Barbara Pool Fenzl’s (pictured above) cooking school, Les Gourme...read more

Editor’s Note: Linda Avery returns with a review of book to help you with that panini press you got for Christmas, and if you didn’t get one, she tells you how to fake it.

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At the partner luncheon at the annual conference of Les Dames d’Escoffier, International (LDEI.org), I filled my plate with a taste of this dis...read more

Editor’s note: Got Amazon.com gift cards? Linda Avery returns with a look at Jeff Koehler’s Spain: Recipes and Traditions from the Verdant Hills of the Basque Country to the Costal Wate...read more

Everyone has one — a fanatic, food-loving friend (some of us have boatloads of them). You know the type. She (or he) already has subscriptions to Bon Appetit, Food & Wine and Cook...read more