Every time I’ve traveled to a non-Anglophone country, it’s been like pulling up to a fast-food drive-thru. You give your order and are rewarded with a barrage of incomprehensible static. Please drive forward! I’ve walked into the same scenario in Japan, Thailand, and France. (At least the food was better than drive-thru quality.) My mouth […]
Aren’t low expectations grand? It always makes me nervous to step into a restaurant laden with five-star reviews (I know, I can’t help help peeking). Even a little disappointment is still disappointment. I’d rather go in expecting mediocrity and be pleasantly surprised. Where am I going with this? Not into a restaurant at all. The […]
Every week since the Broadway Farmers Market opened, on Mother’s Day, we’ve been buying a bunch of asparagus. And every week, it has met the same fate: roasted, topped with a fried egg, and sprinkled with an immoderate dusting of Parmigiano-Reggiano. I’m sure the idea didn’t originate in the book Cucina Simpatica, but its recipe […]
This blog is not known for heart-laid-bare displays of emotion, and I doubt this post will change that, despite the fact that I want to write about how sad I am that my friend Scott died last week. I’ve known Scott Simpson since 2001 or so, but the last time I wrote about him was […]
Jerome Groopman, MD, had a great article about childhood food allergies recently in the New Yorker. (The full text is, sadly, not available online for free.) In the piece, Groopman reminds us that the best current evidence is that there is no reason for pregnant or breastfeeding women to avoid peanuts, eggs, shellfish, and the […]
