Author name: Andrei Gusty

Well, I love to eat! I guess I always did. Tasty foods, traditional foods, fast-foods, healthy foods, and, again, not so healthy ones. You name it. However, in time I kind of built on this habit and, slowly but surely, I began to turn toward the Mediterranean cuisine and, occasionally, even the Mediterranean diet. I am a curious and inquisitive person. So, pretty soon, I started trying to recreate what I’ve tasted or seen. At first, this proved to be hard work for my better half, as she supervised my new experiments. But lately, the results really started to show, so wish me luck!

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QUIZ: Pastrami Forever

The pastrami was brought to America by Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe, starting in the 1880s. Since then it has become one of the most (if not THE most) popular deli foods in the States. It is scrumptious and it is traditional. Check these pastrami questions and see if you’re up to a finger-licking pastrami-stuffed

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Sometimes I think we don’t blanch enough. Shortly scalding your vegetables in boiling water and then plunging them into ice-cold water, not only preserves texture and color but also avoids depleting those greenies of their nutrients. So why don’t we do it more often? And it’s not only green vegetables that can be blanched. You

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