Len Van Vliet
Len Van Vliet is a bon vivant and world traveler, a lover of jazz, good wine and good food. He enjoys gardening and cooking.
In the Kitchen
Tiny tick bite causes a sea change in cooking and eating habits
When beef, pork, lamb, veal and venison are off the menu, what's a chef to do?
In the Kitchen
In the Kitchen No-fuss eggplant lasagna
This time of year eggplant is plentiful. Preparing it for cooking doesn't have to be time-consuming.
In the Kitchen
In the Kitchen This quick and easy Gorgonzola pasta sauce makes for a great weeknight meal
If the busy season the East End has you hustling, you'll love this quick, easy and very tasty Gorgonzola pasta dish.
Cooking
In the Kitchen‘Chef Dad’ learns and shares a new technique to make sauce
Even an old hand at making sauce for the pasta can learn (and share) a new technique.
Guest Column
Out of work after 26 years at the local grocery: inside view of A&P’s demise
An insider's view of the demise of A&P and Waldbaum's and the impacts of Key Food's takeover of the Mattituck store — from the vantage point of a 26-year employee.
Cooking
A nostalgic taste of summer in Italy
Len Van Vliet steps In the Kitchen this week with a reminiscence about summer in Bologna, Italy in 1978 and a delicious recipe he learned there for tagliatelle with peas and ham in a cream sauce.
