Could RFK Jr. “make America healthy again”? In an ABC News story headlined “Some of RFK Jr.’s views are finding support in some unexpected quarters,” journalist Olivia Rubin writes that Pollan made it clear to ABC News “that he thinks Kennedy is a ‘horrible’ choice for the job.” Nevertheless, he said of Kennedy, “He’s injected these issues into the national …
When my brother and I decided to re-create our family’s century old recipe for nocino, an Italian walnut liqueur, we found ourselves with a pleasant problem: what to do with roughly four gallons of a fragrant amaro with a rich, powerful flavor profile. We found that nocino’s spice and walnut overwhelmed the drink when we replaced the vermouth one-for-one in …
Fifty years ago my great-grandfather Carlo Portolan hauled down from the roof of his Lincoln Heights home a glass jug full of fragrant black booze, warm from 40 days in the sun. Nocino, pronounced no-CHEE-no, shows up in written records as early as the Renaissance, where 16th-century physicians raved about a “water of walnuts” that “cooleth the pestilence.” You can …
