President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s catering service knew that the English adored their sausages when hot dogs were served to King George VI of England during his 1939 visit to the United States.
It has been said that cocktail parties were birthed as a result of prohibition in the 1920’s when people turned from bars to in home entertaining and drinking gin straight from the bathtub.
Makes 4 servings as a main dish; 6 to 8 as a starter Dressing: 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 large garlic clove, minced 1/8 teaspoon...
This gazpacho is from Tierra Sur, the restaurant at the Herzog Winery in Oxnard, Calif.
I got a kick out of this story about chefs whose creative use of everyday supermarket ingredients offers good ideas for me and my kitchen. (Altoids to add a curiously strong mint flavor to sauces? Love it! And what if I used the cinnamon Altoids? That might be great melted into the custard for my homemade cinnamon-basil ice cream.)
Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in three states - including California - and possibly more, and health officials on Wednesday dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs, the equivalent of nearly 32 million dozen-egg cartons. No deaths have been reported, but California alone has reported 266 illnesses since June.