by The Omnivorist | Oct 30, 2014 | easy dinner, savory
With the recent nip in the air, a friend has been talking longingly about her grandmother’s watercress soup which got me motivated to dig up this trusty recipe. The peppery watercress becomes mellower when cooked but this doesn’t mean that it is without...
by The Omnivorist | Oct 16, 2014 | Health
We had barely sat down to our first meal in Rome that all hell broke loose. Much like seeing family, no matter how far you’ve think you’ve come, how long you have lived away from them and established your independent self, seeing old girlfriends sets off a...
by The Omnivorist | Oct 8, 2014 | easy dinner, Recipes, savory
We had quite a sh#@ty summer in Paris where it rained pretty much non-stop for what seemed like four months. And then we got a break: a beautiful Indian summer that went on for weeks, a real luxury in our neck of the woods! It was already the first weekend in October...
by The Omnivorist | Sep 29, 2014 | baby, baby food, Health, Pregnancy & Baby
I was so excited about my little guy starting solids and thought I knew exactly how I wanted to do it: the traditional real foods way. Then a friend gave me a copy of Baby-Led Weaning, the influential book by Gill Rapley, and said that it had worked great for their...
by The Omnivorist | Sep 16, 2014 | baby, Health, Pregnancy & Baby
Upon finding out about my very international background, somebody recently asked me which culture I prefer: Turkey, my native country, the US, my home for some 15 years, or France, my current home. It is a question I don’t usually ask myself since I probably...