Buitoni Riserva Pasta & Culinary Cory Style: A Perfect Combo

Life is better when I’m surrounded by good friends and great food. That’s especially true when my friends are eating the food I’ve created. So when the folks at Foodbuzz invited me to host a dinner party featuring Buitoni Riserva Frozen Meals along with my own side dish creations, I jumped at the chance to [...]

Culinary Cory Gets Shout Out on SaraMoulton.com

It’s amazing when interesting things happen in the most unexpected places. A few months ago, Sara Moulton made a stop at a local kitchen store in Pittsburgh to conduct a cooking demo and promote her new book. The weather wasn’t the most cooperative as rain poured intensely for much of the morning. I nearly decided [...]

Tyler Florence Cooking Demo

I currently work for a marketing company that focuses on helping independent retailers use email and social media marketing to drive more traffic to their stores. (Wow…I think that was the most corporate sounding sentence I have written on CulinaryCory.com in a long time.) This week I traveled Atlanta to promote the company and its [...]

My First Tomato of the Summer

I had grand visions of planting a lush garden in my backyard this past spring. It would have been bountiful and ripe with gleaming red tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, string beans and even a few of zucchini plants. Sadly, life got in the way and the activities of summer began to take priority. Those daydreams were [...]

Tips for Growing Fresh Basil

Anyone who flips through the recipes on this site will find I’m a huge fan of fresh basil. It’s my go-to herb of choice when I’m looking to add a boost of flavor. Of course, other classic favorites include parsley, rosemary, thyme and cilantro. But basil always seems to be the front runner in most [...]

Pasta el’Moundo Salad: A Story

Let’s face it. When you’re invited to one of my dinner parties, you are sure to be greeted with more food than you can imagine. Unless your jaw was wired shut and you drank meals through a straw, there is no way you would leave my dinner table hungry. Even then, I would pull out [...]

The Beauty of Everyday Food

It should be no surprise to hear that I cook all the time. But for various reasons, there are many meals that do not find its way on this site. They either (A) so common, the recipe isn’t worth sharing, (B) I wasn’t in the mood to write the recipe down, (C) it smelled so [...]

Artichoke & Roasted Red Pepper Focaccia

Located near Pittsburgh’s downtown core is a one half square mile area known as the Strip District. This landmark neighborhood is home to a wide variety of gritty independent retail shops, ethnic food emporiums and local restaurants. The place is not for those seeking to wrap themselves in the sanitized comfort of a suburban strip [...]

Hanging out with Top Chef Tour

I was still riding on a foodie high after Sara Moulton’s cooking demo and book signing. An early morning cup of mocha Chai tea from a local coffee shop two doors down from the kitchen store definitely wasn’t going to sustain my hunger pains for much longer. I realized I was getting pretty darn hungry. [...]

Sara Moulton: Cooking Demo & New Book

Hipster music pulsated from my car speakers as I drove through the rain to drop Sophie off at doggie daycare. With Brent at volleyball tournament in Cleveland over the weekend, I decided to take advantage of the “me time” to do what I enjoy the most…being a foodie. My day was jammed packed with a [...]

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