Crostini with Butternut Squash, Applewood-Smoked Bacon, and Bitter Greens Recipe

Butternut Squash
We try to stick with strictly Italian flavors when we’re thinking up dishes for the restaurants, but I can promise that you will never find anything like these crostini in Italy. It’s..... read more

Apple Italian Plum Pie Recipe

Apple Italian Plum Pie
This pie from Tate's Bake Shop is a gorgeous color, sweet, tart, juicy, and magnificent. I made this Italian pie when both fruits were in season and my friends Sam and Hakan could not wait to..... read more

Climate Change Will Take Away Chocolate, Bourbon, and Coffee

Chocolate, One of the Disappearing Foods
We've already experienced a bad pumpkin season and rising peanut butter prices, but GOOD magazine has rounded up other notable foods to hoard. Perhaps the biggest hit to mankind will be a bread... read more

Emergency Thanksgiving Toolbox

Zester
A magnificent holiday, Thanksgiving can become a stressful time of year, with all of the menu planning, thinking ahead, and the guests who will be expecting a perfect and delicious meal oh-so-soon... read more

Thanksgiving with The Food Network

The Communal Table
The Daily Meal, as well as other fantastic bloggers and food sites, is participating in the Food Network's blog, The FN Dish's Thanksgiving edition of the Communal Table. What does that mean... read more

Maple-Glazed Pan-Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Chestnuts Recipe

Brussels Sprouts
These perfectly shaped petit cabbages are irresistible when pan-roasted. Sweet, nutty, and slightly crunchy, they’re intensely flavorful tiny packages. But when you add a drop of maple syrup..... read more

Cornbread Recipe

Corn Meal
Jiffy mix makes a fair cornbread. It’s not quite as lofty as homemade, you can’t tailor the sweetness, and it does contain partially hydrogenated lard. But the bread tastes fine and it..... read more

Spicy Beet-Green Crostini

Spicy Beet-Green Crostini
When I was a child, the only beets I ever saw were the ones that came from a can. Needless to say, I never liked beets. The odor emanating from the can alone used to make me run out of the kitchen as..... read more