Sugar Savvy

If you read Well Fed On The Town, you know that I was recently in South Beach on business. I sampled a number of good (and not-so-good) restaurants while there and it was fun. But there was one little eatery that kept taunting me with it’s giant sign and promises of chocolately goodness . . […]

My mother always said there would be days like these. And if I were my mother, I would have had leftovers loaves of sweet breads and cookies waiting in the freezer that I could have easily thawed in a moment’s notice. But alas, I’m not my mother and I don’t even come close to rivaling […]

 
Halvah can be tricky. Is it a protein spread - in the same family as peanut butter? Is it a fine delicacy from The Middle East and Central Asia? Is it a weird hippie candy? Is it funky-tasting?  Is it delicious? Is it all of the above?
I vote for that that last statement: all of the above.
When I think about […]

Everyone runs out of time. There are those moments when you have to have something on the table, and all you have is a mess in the kitchen. That’s exactly what happened to me last week when I looked at my calendar and realized that the latest installment of my hot chocolate column was due. […]