By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven Today, the potato is the fourth most important crop worldwide behind wheat, corn, and rice. But in the 18th century the tuber was a novelty that was…
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KITCHEN MAVEN: Festivities, Family, Friends & Finger Food
By Judith Yamada, Kitchen Maven New Year’s Eve is traditionally a time to gather with friends and family and signifies new beginnings and a new journey through time for each of us….
AN ARDENT GOURMET HOLIDAY MEAL (WITH RECIPES), 2022
By David & Susan Greenberg Greek myth tells of giants who tried to attack Zeus and his posse of amorous, adulterous, jealous, double-dealing, dissolute, vengeful, gluttonous, scheming, feuding, petty, murderous, vainglorious gods…
KITCHEN MAVEN: Chanukah Oh Chanukah, Come Light The Menorah!
By Kitchen Maven, Judi Yamada Although Chanukah is a relatively minor holiday in the Jewish calendar, it’s extremely popular with Jewish families, and a time for decorating homes and preparing special foods…
KITCHEN MAVEN: Jolly Vegan Appetizers for Holiday Parties & Potlucks
By Judith Yamada, Kitchen Maven With so many holidays during this time of year, representing a variety of cultures, religions and days of glory, there is definitely a lot of eating going…
KITCHEN MAVEN: It’s PIE Time! Three Recipes Just in Time for Thanksgiving
By Judith Yamada, Kitchen Maven As far back as the first century, the Roman cookbook, “Apicius”, refers to recipes made with a pie case. The first reference to pie in a written…
KITCHEN MAVEN: 5 Per Day May Keep the Doctor Away
By Judith Yamada, Kitchen Maven The 2020 pandemic brought total devastation to so many, and disruption to the entire world. As a senior citizen, overweight and eating restaurant food at least twice…
KITCHEN MAVEN: TIME TO TAILGATE!
By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven When we lived in Corvallis, Oregon and had season tickets to OSU Beaver football games, we loved to tailgate or at least contribute to the tailgate…
KITCHEN MAVEN: The Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Quandary
By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven Although the names sweet potato and yam are used interchangeably, these tubers belong to separate plant families and are quite different. In fact, sweet potatoes aren’t…
KITCHEN MAVEN: ROSH HASHANAH AND A CLEAN SLATE – Recipe
By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven Happy New Year to all of you this Rosh Hashanah for Hebrew year 5783. The holiday begins at sundown on Sunday, September 25, 2022, and ends…
