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Taste the Chesapeake at Thames Street Oyster House

Thames Street Oyster House in the Fell’s Point quarter of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is definitely the place to go for Chesapeake Bay seafood.

We met native Sicilian Lena at the ancient Greek theater in Taormina. She clued us in to her family’s version of ghiotta with eggs.

The ring-shaped pastas called anelletti are characteristic of parts of Sicily. They’re key to an Easter timballo.

Visit David Saenz at La Melguiza in Madrid for a crash course in the superiority of saffron from La Mancha.

The lightly sweet tarta de Santiago is a classic Spanish almond cake associated with the Camino and Santiago de Compostela.

A warming and homey dish of sausage, bacon, potatoes, and barley, Dublin coddle is a perfect way to mark St. Patrick’s Day.

This fall was a banner year for piñons, aka pine nuts, in northern New Mexico. We used this ancient food to cook from soup to nuts.

This new cookbook, Irish Bakery, hints at what my family’s cooking might have been like if my grandmother had lived long enough.

This new cookbook from Amber Guinness highlights the coastal cooking along the Tyrrhenian Sea from Tuscany to Sicily.

Guinness isn’t just for St. Patrick’s Day. The malty, slight bitter draught gives a nice complexity to a super-spicy gingerbread.