Month: January 2024

An Original Recipe – Banh Mi Bruschetta

An Original Recipe – Banh Mi Bruschetta

I thought I had the perfect, original recipe; one that no one else had thought of, let alone posted online or to social media. But it was not to be. As I mark the sixth anniversary of Max’s Kitchen and Garden this month, I think 

Let Your Kids Be – Eggplant Caponata

Let Your Kids Be – Eggplant Caponata

When I was a five- or six-year-old kid, my father occasionally took my two older brothers and I to the Palestra, the arena that opened in 1927 at the University of Pennsylvania, to see Big 5 college basketball games. We would wander in, find our