Normally I am a major cheese booster. The Seattle Cheese Festival is coming up, and I’m going to be hanging out in Artisanal Alley, scarfing down as much as they’ll allow. Cheese is so powerful, however, that when you cook with it, it can snuff out other flavors. This is why Italian cookbooks are always warning […]
My brother and his girlfriend took Iris to the zoo today. She went hoping to see penguins, lizards, and monkeys. The penguins and lizards had the day off, but she did see giraffes, tigers, orangutans, elephants, and monkeys. After dinner, Laurie and Iris were discussing the zoo. Iris: The elephants were eating grass. Mama tell […]
There, with the big messy polemic out of the way, let’s talk about endive. The Wednesday Chef made an awesome looking endive gratin from the New York Times. I wanted to make it, too, but by the time I got all the ingredients home, I realized that endive gratin alone didn’t really sound like dinner, although […]
I’ve made no secret of my love of the farmers market and of local food in general. So when I went to see Michael Pollan read on Friday night and he said pretty much the same thing, why did it make me uneasy? It’s probably because of the chocolate factory. Pollan is the author of The […]
Today is St. George’s Day, an important English holiday that I learned about yesterday on Becks & Posh. If you don’t know who St. George is, this web site informs you that: One of the best known stories about St. George is his fight with a dragon. But it is highly unlikely that he […]