Cook Your Way Around the World
From the comfort of your keyboard. I wrote this e-book, a few years ago, to accompany the videos on cookingtipstv.com thinking that a computer will one day be part of the kitchen. I imagined people clicking on the video links to follow while preparing recipes....
My Love Affair with Seckel Pears
It all began when I was growing up. My parents owned property on Canandaigua Lake which had orchards bordering their land. The private road, and I mean a very rough, curvy, sloping gravel road would pass through orchards of Seckel pears where we’d pick bucketfuls....
A Sweet Couple and their NY Maple Syrup
Bobbi and Garry Wohlschlegel started their Naples, NY, eponymously named maple products business in 2010. Both are Kodak retirees, she a chemist, he a machinist, and lifelong hobby farmers. They combine their talents and run...
A Taste of Nostalgia in Naples, NY
Since 1950, Bob & Ruth’s Vineyard Restaurant on Main Street in Naples, has been a classic retro diner that has remained a popular eatery by both locals and tourists alike. Bob and Ruth Emory ran their diner with a strict code for staff and if...
Iroquois White Corn Project
When I lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I attended Navajo ceremonies, festivals and art shows and fell in love with the Native American Indian culture and food. While growing up in Rochester, NY, the local tribes had little public representation and information was scarce....
Old Fashion Chili Sauce and more…
My grandmother made her homemade Chili Sauce and it’s a taste memory that I love. Not only because this sauce is deliciously unique and very much a part of Western NY, but she loved canning. We’d help her sterilize the jars and she’d leave one...