Raw cranberry relish. I didn’t even know this was possible. For me, raw cranberries have had the taboo quality of all those other shiny, forbidden berries I was tempted to eat off the shrubbery when I was 5 years old. Really? You’re allowed to eat these raw? When Rosalie’s teacher was telling me about it the other [...]
How does salt enhance flavor? I have read different explanations and don’t know which one is the most accurate a reason—or if they all play a part. One interesting fact I have read recently in a book called The Inquisitive Cook is that salt, or sodium chloride (NaCl), stimulates your taste receptors, since those nerves [...]
Lots of people do something in Seattle that I had never seen before in Texas or Oklahoma. They order tartar sauce with their fries. If you were born and raised in Washington, you might be thinking, “People everywhere don’t put tartar sauce on their fries?” and if you have lived and traveled mostly around Southwest, you might be [...]