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Homemade Toum Garlic Dip (small batch) 

Traditional Toum — Small Batch (about ½ cup) Need a bigger batch? Try this recipe. Perfect when you want the real thing without committing to a lifetime supply of garlic breath. ⸻ Ingredients • ¼ cup garlic cloves (about 10–12 cloves), peeled • ½ tsp kosher salt • ½–¾ cup neutral oil (grapeseed preferred) •Continue reading “Homemade Toum Garlic Dip (small batch) “

The Kitchens That Made Me

Lessons from Grandma Helen’s Kitchen The Kitchens That Made Me is a collection of stories about the people and places that shaped how I cook, eat, and gather. Each kitchen carries more than recipes. They hold lessons about care, creativity, patience, and love. Grandma Helen, my father’s mother, was the quintessential grandmother. She had theContinue reading “The Kitchens That Made Me”

The Missing Garlic in Milan

Food Guru Travel Note Travel has always been my favorite way to understand a place. Not through museums or monuments first, but through kitchens, markets, and the quiet rules people cook by without thinking about them. In Milan, a city known as much for restraint as for style, a small cooking class taught me somethingContinue reading “The Missing Garlic in Milan”

Rustic Tomato–Hominy Chicken Thigh Stew

with Basil, Mascarpone & Red Wine From The Kitchens That Made Me ⸻ This recipe comes from the kitchen of my grandmother, Nola, who cooked from recipes and trusted them — especially during snowy Santa Fe winters, when she’d make a warming pot of chili or stew after we came home tired and hungry fromContinue reading “Rustic Tomato–Hominy Chicken Thigh Stew”

The Kitchens That Made Me

Before I understood food as flavor or craft, I understood it as place.The kitchens that shaped me were not show kitchens. They were working kitchens—rooms where the outside came in on muddy shoes and sun-warmed hands. Both of my grandmothers were gardeners, and their kitchens reflected that. Counters were places of transition, where something pulledContinue reading “The Kitchens That Made Me”

Why Food Guru Travel Guide?

Food isn’t just about flavor. It’s memory, place, and the lessons we learn along the way. A little reflection on the blog about where Food Guru Travel Guide began.

AI, Suffering, and the Next Human Evolution

Why We Need Both Travel teaches us how to move through unfamiliar places.Food teaches us how to slow down and savor them. And somewhere between hunger and arrival, we learn what matters. Food and travel have always been my way of understanding the world. They pull me into the present moment. They ask me toContinue reading “AI, Suffering, and the Next Human Evolution”

Chesapeake Deviled Eggs with Spicy Pickled Shrimp

I make these spicy deviled eggs every year for holiday parties, and they’re always one of the first things to disappear—the kind of appetizer people hover around and then casually ask, “Wait… what’s in these?”

Gijon, Spain And Aviles Tapas/Cider Tour

Exiting the ship in Gijon (pronounced Hee-hawn), there was a local dance troupe and band playing traditional local music. It was amazing to be greeted and welcomed with smiling locals who are happy to have us here! The local military police administered a temperature test and a squirt of hand sanitizer before our walk toContinue reading “Gijon, Spain And Aviles Tapas/Cider Tour”