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Recipe: Gazpacho for an End of Summer Soup Treat

Normally, when tomatoes start coming in, I like eating them right off the vine with a sprinkle of sea salt. But this summer, tomatoes aren’t at their best. That’s because the late blight fungus has taken a severe toll on this year’s tomato crop. So if your tomatoes aren’t looking too great, why not use [...]

All Corn Dinner: With Cocktails Try Chewy Corn Nibbles

At this time of year, when corn is at its peak, what could be better than an all corn dinner made from local corn on the cob?
Chef Renee Marton has constructed a corn festival dinner so get to the farm market and buy that corn!  I’ll post the individual courses throughout the week, starting with [...]

Recipe: Summer Fish Wrap

Looking for a for a summer fish recipe for the grill?  Here’s a  fish wrap from Chef Renee Marton.

You can make this recipe with wild Alaska salmon. But if you’re at the shore in the summertime, you could use blackfish, bluefish, monkfish or grouper fillet—basically any fish that’s thick enough to stand up to grilling. [...]

Meet Chef Renee Marton

Renee is a chef, culinary historian and teacher.  From 1986 to 1992, she was Executive Chef of Restauant Florent, the legendary French bistro that was situated in New York’s
Meatpacking district.  During her career, Renee has run a catering company and worked as a food stylist and recipe tester.  Renee teaches at the Institute for Culinary [...]

Recipe: Make Dad Happy With Rib-Eye Steaks

There must be vegan dads out there, but they don’t happen to be members of my meat-loving family. For my hubby, and for my dad, both die-hard carnivores, when it comes to picking a Father’s Day meal, the dish of choice is obvious—a perfectly cooked steak. In fact, were it not for pesky health issues [...]