Move over, avocado toast. This is a turn on what in Barcelona, Spain, they call “pa amb tomàquet,” tomato toast, a food eaten there at all times of day, for breakfast or as a light meal or snack or starter plate.

BY BILL ST. JOHN
A spoonful of sugar makes more than the medicine go down; it makes everything taste better. But sweetness can be a bugaboo to tasty wine pairings. When a dish is sweet — as here with the peach chutney or the milk of the cheese — but the wine is dry, in the way most wines are, then it's the wine that will taste like medicine.

BY BILL ST. JOHN
Some terrific foods and drinks began as accidents. Beer wasn't invented by some dude in a flannel shirt and suspenders tinkering with a formula, but most likely by a pre-Egyptian who unthinkingly left out his soupy porridge in the Sinai sun.