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Recipes from more than quarter-century of Debra’s newsletters – from our award winning kitchen, and three cookbooks.

Aug 2025
Einkorn Spaghetti with Chickpeas, Tuna Ventresca, and Bonito Flakes In 2010, New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton posted a version of this dish as one of the 15 best things he ate that entire year. “It sounds like...
Jul 2025
Cherry-Balsamic-Ricotta Breakfast Toasts If you’re in a hurry, you could do this with no heat, and only three ingredients: bread, cherries, and ricotta. You’d save 5 minutes, and it’ll still be delicious. But let’s fancy...
Jun 2025
Cucumber Avocado Fresh Salad This recipe is from veteran Debra’s staffer Rakhi, her second contribution to this newsletter. The first was a healthy update on a beloved Indian street food. This time, the recipe...
May 2025
Chilled Kefir and Fermented Beet Soup with Golden Polenta Cubes Credit where credit is due: this recipe is heavily inspired (just short of plagiarism) by a recipe in Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey.  It’s a lovely book, by...
Apr 2025
5-Minute Baby Bok Choy Most of the time, I write these newsletters at the last minute. So when my attempt at an April recipe fell flat three tries in a row, I needed a Plan...
Mar 2025
The Stew The Stew with No Name Here we bring together flavors and ingredients from the Balkan peninsula, Japan, the Middle East, and the 1960 Health Food Movement.  And – hey! – it works…   More than anything,...
Feb 2025
Enmoladas Casserole “An Oaxacan Lasagna” I’ve always loved mole (pronounced mo-LAY).  Hailing from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, mole is a deeply flavorful sauce made from roasted chiles (don’t worry, they’re pretty mild), nuts, seeds,...
Jan 2025
College Rice & Beans This is the first dish I ever “invented” for myself in college, and I remember being quite proud of it at the time. It tasted great, contained all the food groups,...
Dec 2024
Florentine Lace Cookies Florentines, a.k.a. “Lace Cookies,” are my favorite unhealthy sweet. Meltingly crisp with just a hint of chew, more nooks and crannies than an English muffin, and a thin layer of tempered chocolate....
Nov 2024
Crimson Cranberry Cobbler This is a very easy – even foolproof – dessert for your holiday table. And if it’s not fancy enough to your standards, you can fix that with some whipped...
Oct 2024
1 Oven / 2 Sheet Pans When the weather starts to get colder, on Sunday nights, I load two sheet pans into the oven: one with savory/spicy sausage and brassicas[1]; one with mild sausage and root...
Sep 2024
Dan Dan Noodles  In my informal poll of Americans, maybe 10% know what Dan Dan noodles are. That's about to change...
Aug 2024
Traditional Chopped Salad If any of you, my dear readers, have a connection to Lebanon, Israel, or Turkey, then you already know this salad by heart. You’re probably asking yourselves why do the Americans even...
Jul 2024
Vegan Tahini Caesar My grandmother was adamant about her Caesars.  No raw egg yolk?  No anchovies?  Then don’t call it a Caesar!   I’m pretty certain my grandma would have loved this salad.  She...
Jun 2024
Pav Bhaji We published this 8 days ahead of the Washington Post running a similar -- but carbie-er, and less flavorful -- version of the same. Just sayin...

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