Grilled Eggplant Salad

This recipe for Eggplant Salad (which I serve as an appetizer) comes from one of my favorite books, HONEY FROM A WEED, by Patience Gray (Harper and Row, 1986). The book is a love story on every level, not least about the simplicity of growing and foraging ingredients in various parts of Italy, Catalonia, The […]

Tapenade in Five – Roughly – Easy Steps

The sun is shining in Aix-en-Provence, whose surrounding region is home to that fabulously flavorful mixture called tapenade.  You know it, of course you do.  It’s what you dip fennel into, spread on freshly toasted bread, slip under the skin of a chicken before you roast it, or eat right off a spoon.  Olives, garlic, […]

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