The Wednesday Chef

Month: September 2005

  • A Girls Night Dinner Party

    At the dinner party I had last weekend, our menu started with Fresh Herbed Ricotta, served with slices of Amy's peasant bread. Buonitalia Italian Imports, in Chelsea Market, has the only ricotta worth buying in New York. While even this ricotta romana can't hold a candle to the stuff found in Italian caseifici, it certainly…

  • Robert Stehling’s Buttermilk Pie

    Last Friday night, I had a dinner party for a group of girlfriends, replete with dishes culled from pages of the past few Dining In sections of The New York Times (an herbed ricotta appetizer, roasted zucchini, a buttermilk pie). To fill the gaps, I added some of my own creations (brown rice salad, roast…

  • The New Yorker Food Issue

    The September 5th issue of The New Yorker is an absolute pleasure to read. Usually, I get through the magazine pretty quickly – I have no problem easily skipping over articles that don’t captivate me within the first page, and the articles that do catch my attention, well, I read through those quickly, too. Just…