Now for another in our Thanksgiving week food series: a profile of food writer and cookbook author Paula Wolfert, as she calls on her culinary skills to battle back against Alzheimer's.Paula Wolfert has the hands of someone who's been cooking a long time.What I'm going do is, I'm just going to fry this for flavor.In the kitchen of her Sonoma, Calif., home, Wolfert is preparing a cauliflower recipe she loves.This is an Armenian dish taught to me by a very famous Armenian cook. I actually like the dish because it's so simple to make.The 75-year-old Wolfert has been writing about Mediterranean food for four decades.She authored nine cooking books and has won numerous awards, including five James Beards.Wolfert made her mark long before the rise of the modern-day celebrity chefs, but her commitment to authentic recipes and ingredients still influence many in the culinary world today.I like real food. I'm not a chef who makes up dishes. That's today's world.I was interested in real food of the countries that I had visited.And I had visited all the countries of the Mediterranean by the time I got around to writing about the food.And in writing about the food, you have to explain the people.Now, at that time, people didn't do that very much in cookbooks.
