Healthy cooking does not have to equal bland, flavorless and boring. The following dish isn’t a watered down copies but an inspired flavorful combination.

The Flight Deck has a sense of place, a welcoming attitude and a feeling that there is someone that cares behind the curtain. There is a vibe, a real feeling that it’s not just any restaurant at any airstrip.

Two interesting pieces of food news this week.

TV chef Keith Floyd dies and the New Yorker speculates whether the “trend” of simpler fare represents a flight not from expense but from taste.

In case you’ve been in a cave for the last two decades, Farm Aid is:

Farm Aid has worked for 24 years to keep family farmers on their land, by bringing together family farmers and citizens to guarantee family farm food is available to you. Farm Aid’s mission is to build a vibrant family-farm centered system of agriculture in America.

Although Panzanella was created out of the need to do “something” with leftover bread, this traditional Tuscan salad is far from the ordinary, not a cliché and certainly not an afterthought. To me, this bread and tomato based salad is the epitome of local, seasonal and flavorful. One of my culinary passions is bread baking [...]