Caroline Bates

AlamyIn this installment of Global Cook, Caroline Bates shares her Cuban Black Bean Soup recipe and tips on making a Sopa de Frijoles Negros that would make the Coach House proud. Red beans, pink beans, yellow beans. Black beans, brown beans, white beans. Beans speckled like Appaloosa ... Read More

AlamyIn this installment of Global Cook, Caroline Bates shares her Beef Bourguignon recipe and tips on making a Boeuf Bourguignon that would impress Julia Child. "There are more ways than one to arrive at a good boeuf bourguignon," wrote the late Julia Child, whose Mastering the Art ... Read More

AlamyIn this installment of Global Cook, Caroline Bates shares a recipe for Japanese Nori-Wrapped Salmon with Somen Noodles that's easy to make at home. As a New England kid, seaweed to me meant the shiny, treasure-laden stuff that washed ashore in drifts. I loved combing it for a sand ... Read More

Bon Appetit / AlamyIn this installment of Global Cook, Caroline Bates shares a Scandinavian Pork Loin with Apricots and Cherries recipe that's perfect for Christmas dinner or any other festive meal. In my second winter in New York, I fell in love with glogg, trolls, straw goats, and wooden ... Read More

Getty ImagesIn this installment of Global Cook, Caroline Bates shares a recipe for Caldo Verde or Portuguese Kale Soup that's easy to make at home. Caldo verde (literally, "green soup"), the national soup of Portugal, also happens to be among the great regional dishes of southeastern ... Read More

AlamyIn this installment of Global Cook, Caroline Bates shares an Indian Vegetable Korma recipe that's easy to make at home. Once upon a time, all you needed to "curry" a dish was a dash of the yellow powder sold in every supermarket. My mother was of a generation that adored curry ... Read More

Getty ImagesBack in the early 1970s, like many cooks hungry for excitement, I lapped up any book that took me to exotic and unfamiliar kitchens. The first cookbook that transported me in this way was spotted at a small-town yard sale; I was mainly drawn by the cover photo of a smiling, buxom ... Read More

Getty ImagesMy first encounter with Chinese noodles in a spicy peanut sauce came in a rather grungy Honolulu food market where I'd gone with an expat French chef and a native Hawaiian. "Don't worry," the chef assured me. "We duck in here several times a week," and they laughed. I watched as a ... Read More

CorbisOnce in a while you happen upon a book so honest and affecting that it changes how you think about food. In The Tuscan Year(Atheneum, 1985), Elizabeth Romer chronicles the month-by-month cycle of life on a Tuscan farm that grows, prepares, and forages for everything it eats. It is ... Read More

CorbisThe sunny stew of peppers, tomatoes, onions, and garlic -- called "piperade" -- flavors the Basque country of France and Spain, and stirs it up a little, too. Gerald Hirigoyen points out in The Basque Kitchen (HarperCollins, 1999) that every Basque has a slightly different take on this ... Read More