Tag Archives: food

Illness, snow shoveling, and massive cooking projects have conspired to keep me from summarizing last year’s food experiences until today. So without further ado, I present my best of 2010, following the same format as last year’s post. Cookbook Ideas … Continue reading →

I have always had a love/hate relationship with risotto. It wasn’t a staple in my family’s Italian-American kitchens, but when I discovered it later, it became one of my favorite dishes. I love eating risotto, but I hate cooking it. … Continue reading →

I don’t know what surprised me more: learning that Mark Bittman will no longer be writing his Minimalist cooking column for The New York Times, or learning that he had written 700 columns over the course of thirteen years. He … Continue reading →

Today I discovered another supposedly fun thing I’l never do again: standing on my side roof and shoveling show off it to prevent structural damage. I no longer have any place to put more snow, so if you’d like some … Continue reading →

We had a kitchen full of food and we were ready to cook all of it. But let’s have another look at the rest of that kitchen: That’s a three-sink dishwashing station with sinks dedicated to (right to left) washing, … Continue reading →

Have you ever cooked for 500 people a day for three straight days? I have, and I lived to tell the tale. The story begins a little over a year ago, when my friends Rose and Josh called and asked … Continue reading →

I have been sick and I have been busy. The weasels in my lungs attempted to take up permanent residence, thwarted only by a solid week’s worth of insomniac coughing fits. I also spent a solid week planning, shopping for, … Continue reading →

I still remember my first bowl of French onion soup. It was January of 1978, and I was in New York City with the MIT Concert Band, the first stop of a week-long tour of the northeast. My friends and … Continue reading →