A MEMORIAL IN YDRA

The family taverna, reaching it by passing a narrow alley inside the market near the port, Irene (pronounced Ee-re-ne-ya, which I understand in Greek means peace), the owner sat me down at the table with hot water to start and announced the special for the day.  Ydra, Greece is surrounded...

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Baked Garlic and Broiled Jalapeño Sauce

Sam Sifton wrote this wonderful sentence in his Sunday column on cooking: "I'm not a line cook nor a chef, just a loving provider, trying to make what's available into something delicious for my family's meal." In the column he had also explained the similarity between a line cook and a home cook...

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I AM AYU

         “Looking back I seem always to have been escaping from my kitchen into my workshop: cooking in order to work, rather than working in order to eat.                                 ...

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Filipino-American

Those high lunches needn’t matter If you are of businessman’s age Anyway he enjoyed creating food drifting across the Fragrant Nation — Allen Ginsberg Jose Rizal was a poet and national hero of the Philippines. In one of his travel writings, upon embarkation to Spain, he mused that foreignness...

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