Kentucky Derby Day: Cocktails, Sandwiches & Secretariat

Secretariat at Belmont 1973 (true confession, this picture is my screen-saver) I am a sucker for horses and have been since childhood. Asi...

A Scottish Grouse meets an 1850 Madeira and a dream is realized

“The Red Grouse is never far from heather and its Gaelic name is Coileach-fraoich (Cock of the Heather). No one really knows where the nam...

Verjus

Picking green grapes for making vertjus ; Tacuinum Sanitatis , 14 74 I have a secret ingredient. It’s called Verjus (from Middle Fre...