The Food Table, a food and recipe blog, offers personal reflections on traditional and not so traditional dishes, their history and the ways we enjoyed them.  The Food Table takes a fond look at foods for the holidays: for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.  Relive Christmas lasagna and Saint Joseph’s day zeppoli.   Taste the Easter pies of ricotta and rice and ham.  There’s even the recipe for my Irish mother’s Saint Patrick’s Day boil.

Recall the taste of foods for the changing seasons:  foods for summer, autumn, winter and spring.  In summer, walk on the beach to find mussels and clams.  Drive through Amish country for summer vegetables.  Visit Jersey farms for fresh fruits and berries.   In fall, stop at the farm stalls for apples and squash.  In winter return to old time family recipes with pastas and beans.  Wake up in spring to new artichokes, asparagus and greens.  

 

  Each recipe begins with personal memories or with notes on the origins and variations of the dish.  My own culinary background is that common combination of Italian and Irish, with the Italian the most influential. If you are of similar Italian American background, or wish you were, you may share in many of these memories either from similar personal experience or from wishful thinking. But Italian food is not the limit here. The Food Table also explores the great variety of culinary experiences from Philadelphia to Hong Kong.
Each page of The Food Table provides step by step illustrated recipes for meat, chicken, poultry, fish, pasta, greens and baked goods. The Food Table suggests the use of organic produce and humanely raised animals. 
The Food Table also devotes specific sections to personal reviews of restaurants, cookbooks and TV cooking shows and invites readers to comment.