“I was very nearly born on Long Island. It would have been the perfect story – I’ve long considered the small town of Quiogue, a little blip on the map of the…
Category: Recipes
Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
Tilleul. Moelleux. Huit. Mûre. Pas du tout. If you’ve spoken to me in French, you’ve probably heard me complain about at least one of these words. They’re the words that, in my…
Foodbuzz 24×24: A Proustian Picnic
Et tout d’un coup le souvenir m’est apparu. Ce goût, c’était celui du petit morceau de madeleine que le dimanche matin à Combray (parce que ce jour-là je ne sortais pas avant…
Salade composée with tuna, asparagus and new potatoes
My mom is not a big fan of chocolate. She doesn’t like sweets that much at all, except a bite of really good lemon tart, a nibble of a palmier or maybe…
Pesto Rosso Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Un historien de l’an 4500 regarde des livres d’histoire de la France. “Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI… Louis XVIII… Mais… c’est quoi cette famille qui ne sait pas compter…
Fava Bean Curry
It’s been awhile, but I’m not going to apologize: I like to think of those of you who are out there, mostly silent but sometimes appearing out of cyberspace with words of…
Asparagus and White Bean Pasta
Just when I think I’m completely out of new, healthy, tasty ideas for the kitchen… spring happens. And with spring, comes asparagus. Yes, I know there are a lot of spring vegetables:…
The Country Boy’s Brownies
The more time I spend away from home, I find, the more time I spend thinking about my childhood, more specifically, the way my mother raised us. I see children in public…
Smoked Salmon Scramble for Easter
Spending a lot of time moving around also means spending a lot of time being homesick. My Baudelaire quote–the one I was obsessed with for years–says “I think I could always be…
Salade Composée
I’ve developed traditions slowly, quietly, without even thinking about them. It takes an external person, someone who wasn’t there along the way with me, to comment on something that, to me, is…