I’m still here. These days I spend my time on Instagram when I’m not working from home. The pictures you’re looking at are a selection of meals from the past […]
B and I have been together since May 2013. If you count since we’ve been living together, it’s been 3 1/2 years. I prefer to start the clock from the […]
Clicking on any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow of high-resolution photographs. They’re random pix I took while I was gallivanting around San Francisco […]
I’m starting to write again. A little history first: back in 2000, I applied to The New School so I could obtain my MFA degree in creative writing. I was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have a confession to make. I am one of those people who adores ramps. I go crazy over them when they appear. Their presence at the market says that […]
When I was younger, I grew up hating garlic, most vegetables and spicy food. I was to my mother’s chagrin, a picky eater. It’s interesting how the adult version of […]
There’s a tradition in nearly every culture I can think of that transforms stale bread into something magical. I had a rock-hard baguette that was leftover from Saturday that could […]
Can I say how much I love beans? Especially fresh shell beans? If there’s one vegetable that I’ve fallen in love with in 2013, it’s been beans: from the common […]
Dad died when I was three years old, from adult-onset diabetes. Drinking well over six cans of soda a day will do that to just about anybody. As a result, […]
To cooks worldwide, she is known by her first name, Julia. She needs no introduction, as without her, much of what we take for granted (food-wise) would probably be very […]
If you live in the New York City metropolitan area, you may have heard that a massive nor’easter is scheduled to arrive in town early tomorrow evening. It promises to […]
