Fiery Foods & BBQ Central Recommendations Chile Pepper Bedding Plants… over 500 varieties from Cross Country Nurseries, shipping April to early June. Fresh pods ship Sept. and early Oct. Buy online at www.chileplants.com Chile Pepper Seeds… from all over the world from the Chile Pepper Institute. Buy online at www.chilepepperinstitute.org Pepper gardeners should always plan before they plant. The planning …
Dinner on the Diner, Trans-Siberian Style
Story and Photos by Sharon Hudgins The Golden Eagle train en route across Siberia. Trans-Siberian railroad station restaurant around 1900. If you’ve ever eaten on the dining car of a train, you know that dinner on the diner can range from dismal to delightful. But who would ever think of taking a Trans-Siberian train nearly 6,000 miles across Russia for …
Vibrant Veggie Soups for Spring
“You can’t eat this soup standing up, your knees buckle.” – Jerry, in “The Soup Nazi” “The guy who runs the place is a little temperamental, especially about the ordering procedure. He’s secretly referred to as the Soup Nazi.” “Why? What happens if you don’t order right?”“He yells and you don’t get your soup.” – Jerry and Elaine, in …
For Carnivores Only
By Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach “The Meating Place of Spice and Smoke” The first outdoor cook to use chile peppers during a barbecue was Jaguar Claw, a somewhat hen-pecked paleo-Native American who lived in the Amazon Basin about 20,000 years ago. He had dispatched his prey with his spear, had butchered the world’s largest rodent with his new flint …
Spicy Summer Grilling: Belizean Grilled Fish Burger
This particular “burger” is a fired-up re-creation of a fish sandwich one of our editors devoured in the tiny town of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, Belize. The restaurant was called Elvies Burger Isle, and the diners sat outside under a tamarind tree on picnic benches. If ever there was a simple to prepare, quick and easy fish recipe with …