As far as culinary staples go, fruit salad is an elder—it has been around for generations and it isn’t going anywhere. A fruit salad will always be easy, but a good fruit salad involves more than just a chop and a toss. At their best, fruit salads deliver an unexpected combination of color and contrast, … Read more
It’s easy to confuse Blue Hawaiian and Blue Hawaii, two similarly named tropical cocktail recipes with nearly identical vibrant blue colors. But the two have different ingredients and origin stories. The Blue Hawaii dates to 1957 when Harry Yee, a bartender at what’s now the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii, created a … Read more
These pancakes are inspired by Hummingbird cake, a moist spice cake with bananas, pecans, and crushed pineapple that originated in Jamaica in the 1960s and went on to become a popular dessert in the American South. Instead of using canned crushed pineapple, I caramelize thin slices of fresh pineapple in maple syrup before piling them … Read more