Savor Culture

The Wonderful Husband and I have been settling into our new house.  With more projects than time, we decided to hold off on major landscaping and garden plans until next year.  Excepting the Roma tomato plant (a gift from our neighbor) and motley patches of mint and basil, I’m leaving the veggie production to the [...]

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This lovely hunk of goodness is a bloomy-rind, goat’s milk cheese called Gabriel.  Actually, it’s a goat-cow blend, as indicated by the yellow hue of its paste; pure goat’s milk cheese, lacking the carotene present in cow’s milk,  is snowy-white in color.  Gabriel is enriched with enough cow’s cream to bump it up to triple-cream [...]

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Wonderful Husband Charles and I have moved to my old stomping ground in Middle Tennessee. Among the personal and professional reasons was my desire to help in opening the new Nashville location of Trader Joe’s, where I am a crew member. In honor of our opening day this Friday, I would like to [...]

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Our recent trip to Boston included a visit to a revered institution in Cambridge, populated with model specimens from home and abroad.  I speak, of course, of Formaggio Kitchen, one of America’s pioneering purveyors of gourmet foodstuffs.  Now in its thirtieth year, FK offers a bounty of fresh produce, breads and pastries, beverages and wines, tea [...]

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Produce from Chang Farm is served at Amherst Chinese Food.
Last night, I dined with Wonderful Husband Charles at Amherst Chinese Food.  Don’t be deceived by its unassuming name: Amchi, as it’s fondly known, was chosen by Gourmet magazine as one of the country’s best “Farm-to-Table” restaurants in 2007.  
The restaurant is owned by Dr. Tso-cheng [...]

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