Unique Food Recipes & Dinner Ideas

Because it is a region that for centuries had commerce and trade with distant lands, such as the Far East (in which the Venetians learned the the use and value of spices) and Northern Europe. The four key points of Venetian cuisine are: polenta, cod, rice and beans. 

Carnevale, which means "farewell to meat," is one of the biggest festivals in Italy and begins two or three weeks before Ash Wednesday. 

The  Smörgåsbord is Sweden's most internationally renowned culinary tradition. The word smorgasbord is broken down to smorgas, meaning open-faced sandwich and bord, meaning table. The modern Smorgasbord originated in the 1700s as a tradition of serving appetizers and spirits prior to the meal of the upper class. Appetizers included cheese, bread, butter, herring, salmon, Swedish meatballs, potatoes and other foods.

L.A. is a town of many tastes. Its famous foods are less defined by available ingredients than by the transplants to the city. Transplants from other parts of America and from all over the world 0 especially Mexico and Asia. The food is as vaired as the diversity of the population. The recipes below try to capture that variety starting with the lowly burger that is not so lowly in LA.

Appetizers using caviar are often very simple recipes to make and the result is always a gourmet delight. It must be nice to be caviar and know that you are always a gourmet treat. Here are seven easy recipes using various types of caviar and roe.

Recipes for one bowl meals rely, in our opinion, on great flavors that the best foods deliver. Mix up the same bland foods in a one bowl recipe and your one bowl meal is bland. Put in fabulous ingredients like Wagyu steak, the best Louisiana white shrimp, Carolina stone ground grits or aromatic rice, or Smoking Goose Andouille and Tasso Ham and you create a masterpiece in a single serving.

Most of the Christmas dinner plate will be filled with side dishes. We recommend using interesting ingredients to take the sides from mundane to truly delightful. Black truffles, wild mushrooms, wild rice, and  blood oranges are some of our ingredient suggestions. 

Turns out that the cranberry is not only a great thanksgiving side, it is a great addition to the foods that can improve your health. Foods — like cranberries — that can help shape and support a healthier gut microbiome could have a remarkable impact on public health.

Our heritage turkeys are the oldest genetic line of heritage turkeys, 100% pure bread, in the country - dating back to the 1840's. They are 100% pasture raised and have never - ever had antibiotics. Read preparation recommendations.

  Bay scallops are simple and really sweet and succulent (for a shellfish). Like all the best fish, they can be eaten raw (crudo) but they sure lov...

Pheasant are harvested all over the globe, most places more than the US, and prepared in limitless numbers of dishes as a substitute for chicken. We particularly like the love affair between pheasant and fall/winter.

Magret de Canard is duck breast from the Moulard (Mulard, in French) breed of ducks (The Moulard is a cross between the White Pekin and the Muscovy duck.). On the table, moulards have a deeper, richer, beefier flavor. But its not just the breed that gives these breast their rich flavor