Farm Kitchen

Breakfast in Baghdad is often preceded by tea or coffee served in bed. The morning meal itself usually consists of tea or coffee, khubz or bread, cream, date sirup, and honey. The Western menu of fruit, eggs, cereal, meat, jam, and coffee is gaining popularity with Iraqis who have traveled or who live where [...]

La cucina povera is an Italian phrase that means “cooking of the poor,” or “peasant cooking.” This is the traditional cuisine of the farm kitchens in Italy.
Once looked down upon as “poor people’s cooking,” the menus of la cucina povera are receiving new attention and respect because of recognized health benefits of the Mediterranean diet, [...]