I'm losing faith

Mixt Salads recipe #3: Heaven Heaven : a frisee aux lardons salad plus chanterelles . Has everyone eaten the classic frisee aux…

Gourmet Today: earnest summation

If you have it, keep it. If you don't, it's nothing you can't live without. That's my assessment of the fat and s…

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We certainly did. I'm truly grateful to have such a lovely family, both the one…

Long post about recent social events and what I cooked

We clocked some serious recipe mileage over the last few days. All dishes made from Gourmet Today .   Saturday Guests: The p…

Not to change the subject or anything

But it is hard to weigh a live turkey on a bathroom scale. I did it, sort of. She weighs about 20 pounds. I didn't even try w…

Adding pomegranate molasses and sesame oil is not a revolution

I once wrote a story about the history of Caesar salad and I don't remember any of it. Something about Tijuana? I don't r…

Some odds and ends

This is the best dish I've made from Gourmet Today , and it is the one for which I had the lowest expectations. Sun-dried tom…

Another day, another coffee cake

Funny, because I rarely eat coffee cake, preferring to maintain the illusion that I'm on a diet until at least noon. But in t…

We all have to have our nice hobbies

Here's Jonathan Safran Foer on urban homesteading  , specifically, the value of keeping backyard chickens: "Is it a solu…

Gourmet Today: this marriage can't be saved

I'm feeling no passion for  Gourmet Today . Last week I was happily cheating on Ruth Reichl with Todd Wilbur who is so comp…

Gourmet Today: roasted pears and candied celery

Right before we went to Boston last week, we had party with my uncle Luis, his wife Ana Maria, and my grandmother. The only dish …