In honor of the news that a low-fat diet is unlikely to have any effect on cancer or cardiovascular disease, Iris and I had burgers and fries for lunch yesterday. Furthermore, the burgers were cooked medium. I recently reviewed a burger place and castigated them for, among other things, overcooking the burger that I ordered medium. […]
Cold pizza for breakfast is nothing to apologize for, but I prefer hot pizza. What are you going to do when you roll out of bed, though? Preheat the oven? Luckily, there’s a better way to reheat one or two slices. It’s not only faster, but you get crisper, fresher-tasting pizza, too. I can’t take an […]
One of the givens of the food world is that no matter what you’re eating, someone will come along and tell you there’s something better, and unfortunately they will be right. I eat pretty good chocolate—Valrhona Le Noir Amer is the bar I try to keep in my backpack at all times—but then I read […]
Like many kids her age, Iris has her first- and second-person pronouns reversed. “Dada, pick you up,” is something I hear often. Hang onto this thought. I’ve been enjoying Rick Bayless’s new book, Mexican Everyday. It’s an clever hybrid. Like most “weeknight” cookbooks, it assumes you don’t have a lot of time. Unlike most of them, […]
I’ve long wanted to write an article about the importance of sour flavors in cooking. Nearly everything we eat has a pH of less than 7, so we’re all sour freaks to some extent. I’m more so than average, and Iris beats me handily: she will happily eat a slice of lemon. In fact, once, […]