If you enjoy cooking or eating steak, get Cree LeFavour’s The New Steak. It’s that simple. Okay, you say, how can steak fill an entire cookbook? Buy a good steak, cook it medium-rare, eat. Throw in a list of cuts, some information about USDA grades, organic and grass-fed, aging methods, and maybe you’re up to […]
Iris learned to read. She practices on the spines of cookbooks during dinner. Recent observations: “If you want to know how to cook everything, just read that yellow book.” “That book is called How to Eat, but everybody knows how to eat.”
To Alban Mouret, master saltmaker in the Camargue region, and to all of our gourmet-minded dinner guests: I’m sorry we filled our empty fleur de sel de Camargue container with Maldon sea salt.
There’s a new location of Mae Phim Thai restaurant in downtown Seattle, right near where I often catch the bus. It’s been open a couple weeks and I think I’ve eaten there four times. The food is no better than dozens of other Thai restaurants, but they have a winning formula: Everything on the menu […]
