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The Joy of Cooking
“That which they fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if though wouldst possess it.” Goethe: Faust The inscription is from the dedication page of my The Joy of Cooking. Odd as this may be,...
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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
This quote is attributed to Paul Gauguin – I discovered it researching a passage that caught my eye from Adam Gopnik’s recent New Yorker article “Van Gogh’s Ear.” In November of 1888, Vincent Van Gogh...
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The best thing I ever ate (1991)
Commercials for that Food Network show The Best Thing I Ever Ate got me thinking about some of the best food I’ve ever had, and the first thing my mind landed on was the Caesar salad from Rojo’s, which...
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Vancouver field trip, part 2
In Vancouver, I experienced a perfect trifecta of place, memory and meal. To understand how amazing this was for me you need some background. 1968. The world was in upheaval: unpopular war raging in...
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Thinking about apples . . .
I just came home with a dozen apples from the market: small Fujis for lunches and snacks and larger tart Granny Smiths to either slice and serve with cubes of extra-sharp cheddar cheese or to juice...
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For perfectly straight cucumbers every time
We recently had a gentleman visitor from England, an erudite, entertaining, fellow who, although having travelled extensively in Africa and the Middle East during his first career, was on his first...
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