When you plan a road trip to the mountains but the South of France declares a snow day, the only recourse is to take solace at the nearest village market. Your Canadian friend who is doing the driving ...

Duck soup with wild rice, einkorn sourdough bread . Okay, it’s no secret, I love soup. What other type of food can be packed with so much nutrition? You can get all of the food groups into one ...

What could be more pedestrian -- and less glamorous -- than onions, carrots and celery? Yet mirepoix, the simple trinity of ordinary vegetables cut into even dice, forms the foundation of a tremendous ...

There’s been much anger and lament (my own included) about this month’s government budget cuts for support and funding for PBS radio and TV stations around the country. While growing up at the farm in ...

M. Veronica Mack from Baltimore was looking for a recipe for making Czarnina, a traditional Polish duck soup, like the one her mother used to make when she was young. Like most Czarina recipes her ...

Holiday menus are filled with tradition and symbolism. This is the season when grocery lists for Christmas and Hanukkah require special ingredients. Our family has Polish recipe favorites. I recently ...