Chef Bolek

Few dishes leave me in awe, and Javaher Polow  or Persian Jeweled Rice is one of them. My awe manifests itself in a couple of different ways...

"People often think of Haiti as a place where you are not supposed to have any joy. I want to show that this is a place where you can h...

There is cochinita pibil and then there is cochinita pibil. The former involves a suckling pig (cochinita = little pig) that is first marin...

There are only a handful of food blogs that I regularly follow, and, one of them is Hunter, Angler, Gardener and Cook or "HAGC....

For my 40th birthday, a friend gave me a very special gift.  Knowing that I enjoy fine wine, he gave me a bottle of Veuve Cliquot Ponsard...

The word, mahimahi , means "very strong" in Hawaiian. On the eastern coast of the United States, Americans use mahimahi --or  ...

When Clare and I recently visited my parents, we decided to prepare a meal for them.  We went to a local grocery store, which had a wide ...

Recently, I wanted to make Cedar Plank Salmon.  For me, this dish takes me back to my very first trip to the Pacific Northwest, when I we...

My beautiful wife, Clare, is always trying to get me to eat my vegetables, which is quite a task given that I am a committed carnivore.  ...