The Spamwise Chronicles

Home Cooking Snapshots

I have a backlog of posts to write, but a combination of late nights in the office and blogging blues have kept me at bay. Hopefully I’ll be able to […]

American cuisine

Gramercy Tavern Snapshots

Gramercy Tavern is one of my favorite restaurants in New York City. It opened in July 1994 to rave reviews. It’s always been a showcase of New American cuisine with […]

American cuisine

Random Snapshots

Clicking on any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow of high-resolution photographs. Enjoy.

autumn

Friday Greenmarket Snapshots

Clicking on any of the images below will bring up a slideshow of larger photographs. Enjoy the pix.

food

Orecchiette with Uncooked Tomato Sauce

It’s the height of tomato season here in New York City. One standby that I almost always seem to resort to when I just don’t feel like cooking is salsa […]

Alice Waters

Ratatouille

If there’s a dish that really epitomizes the height of summer, it’s ratatouille. Wikipedia tells us that it’s a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in Nice, and that […]

American cuisine

As you can probably imagine, tomatoes are my favorite vegetable. Right now, my farmers’ markets are inundated with them: beefsteak tomatoes, Jersey tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, San Marzano tomatoes and Sungold […]

cooking

Polpettine all’Umbra

To most Americans, meatballs are made to be paired with spaghetti or some other type of pasta, typically served in a concoction known as “Sunday gravy“. In the annals of […]

autumn

Labor Day Market Snapshots

Clicking any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow of photographs. Enjoy the pix.

food

August Market Snapshots

As usual, clicking on any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy the pix.

cooking

Mejadra, with Yogurt and Cucumber

Rice and beans (or peas, or lentils) is a tradition in just about every region I can think of, from the American South (red beans and rice), to India (chana […]

cooking

Green Beans Braised in Tomato Sauce

On Facebook, someone mentioned how the style of my cooking so often can be tracked to old-time Italian country cooking. At the time the recession of 2008 hit, I started […]

American cuisine

Summer Snapshots

Clicking any of the photographs below will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy the pix.

cooking

Chicken with Mustard

A few months ago, I bought “My Paris Kitchen“. It was roughly around this time that I decided to change my habit of rarely cooking directly from cookbooks to more […]

food