Avocado Salad with Pikliz

In case you haven’t noticed by now, Jody and I both love condiments, the more unfamiliar the better.  Every year we have to do a major refrigerator purge because the long term residents have moved off the door or the impractical skinny shelf into the space reserved for more temporary tenants like leftovers or fresh …

Allandale Farm Salad

If you spent this past spring in soggy New England dreaming of warm dry weather while  gazing at the mural in a Greek restaurant then the current heat wave probably finds you in a bit of a stupor, although perhaps not of happiness.  The solution?  Get yourself to a farmers’ market – or an actual …

Life is a bowl of pickles

l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is a Provençal village so stunningly picturesque, so filled with good things to eat that you can’t help but wonder if it sprung full-blown from the forehead of an editor at TRAVEL or GOURMET.  Go out there, kid, and get that village.  If it doesn’t exist, make it up!  The town is famous for …