We hosted a remote cheese tasting for a milestone anniversary recently. It was such fun.  Consider hosting your own as you plan a gathering with family or friends this holiday season. A remote cheese tasting can be simple or extravagant. You can do the work for your guests or let them take part in selecting and provisioning.  And you’re contributing to a worthy cause. Globally, artisan cheese makers are suffering along with myriad businesses that

Like many, we support artisans of all types, never more so than this year and for the holidays. Here are some items on our radar right now, call these Priscilla’s picks: Narragansett Creamery Narragansett Creamery is a new discovery for me. It makes a silky ricotta to which I an now addicted.  Cannoli bakers take note. Finding Home Farms Barrel-Aged Maple Syrup Last year, a colleague introduced me to Finding Home Farms’ New York State

When I was 14 years old on my first trip to France,  I visited Pérouges, a medieval walled city not far from Lyon and Jacques Pépin’s  home town. There, I ate the famed Galette de Pérouges, a sweet yeast dough coated with a crunchy sugar, butter and lemon topping.  Much later I learned to make it to serve with custard for dessert at our restaurant. You can watch me make it and get the recipe