piece meal

All good cooks are hedonists on some level, as the devotion to preparing food is driven by the desire to maximize the pleasure of eating....

Piece Meal posted about beloved buffalo milk cheeses from Italy on December 4. We are now re-angling the limelight on another buffalo...

A raw or chilled shellfish platter consumed with a cold bottle of champagne or Sancerre is our ideal of holiday merrymaking. That said,...

Most infused olive oils taste so subtle, it’s as if their flavoring agent has gone incognito on a top-secret mission to infiltrate the...

Get an epicure talking about the source of their interest in cuisine or cooking and more often than not, nostalgic recollections of...

About eight years ago we tasted a chestnut soup at Spago in Beverly Hills that had us scouring the internet for Wolfie’s recipe. We found...

If we’ve learned anything from the Ghost of Thanksgiving past, it’s that there’s never enough gravy if you make it from just the turkey...

It’s that time of year when we fall back in love with L’Etivaz, a hard Swiss cheese reminiscent of Gruyere, but creamer, nuttier, and...

The satisfaction derived from making one’s own bread is akin to the pride taken in building one’s own furniture. It makes us feel...

It recently dawned on me that comparing coffee to tea is a bit like comparing the Beatles to the Stones; they are both frequently pitted...