Month: November 2005
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I thought I'd start today's post with an Action!shot because I should pay tribute to those hardworking hands of my dear father, who so patiently and selflessly peeled pounds and pounds (or ounces and ounces) of pearl onions the day of Thanksgiving. Do you see the filmy little onion membrane? The gloopy texture of the…
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This year, Thanksgiving was all about the blog. With the exception of the turkey and the stuffing and the mashed potatoes and the gravy, our meal was constructed around various clipped recipes from my archives. My father and stepmother are kind and generous folk and I thank them for their patience and flexibility. Because it…
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I know Thanksgiving is over. It doesn't matter. You have to go, now, to buy yourself some butternut squash and make this pie. Because it could be among the greatest squash pies ever made. If I had stars on this blog, this pie would get most of them. It's better even than Rose Levy…
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My third Sugar High Friday event feels like a momentous one, because it's combined with my very first Is My Blog Burning event! Two birds with one stone – I love it. Alberto of Il Forno and Jennifer of The Domestic Goddess, the originators of IMBB and SHF, respectively, joined forces this time around. Although…
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Our vacation on the Cote d’Azur was lovely in many ways, but foodwise, it was nothing special. Oh sure, the cheese from the maitre fromager was lovely, the cracklingly fresh baguettes we bought almost every day were splendid and difficult not to wolf down in one go, and the gorgeously fresh and flavorful steaks we…
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We’re back! It was a perfect vacation. And how could it not be? When you have a view from your apartment window that looks like thisand drive to hilltop towns that look over the Mediterranean with succulent plants all around like thisand go to covered markets in seaside towns where you can buy oils and…
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I’d like you to meet my very first food processor! The last time Ben and I visited his mother in the Hudson River Valley, I saw this forlorn machine sitting in her garage, cobwebby and neglected. Ben’s mother had a Cuisinart that she used in her kitchen, but this older workhorse was just gathering dust.…
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Six years ago, when I was living in a courtyard studio on rue Bonaparte in Paris, I sat at my kitchen-dining room-bedroom table and leafed through a copy of British Vogue. After looking at the glossy pages of statuesque models with impossibly long limbs and blank expressions, I reached the food pages, where an entirely…
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You might have noticed that I never post about recipes from Epicurious. It’s not because I don’t like their recipes, but rather it’s because the reader reviews do the job I’ve taken on for myself with the newspaper recipes. It’s a very useful place to find recipes and food information, though I have sometimes tired…
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A few weeks ago, Melissa Clark wrote an article for the NY Times about Pierre Reboul, the pastry chef at Kurt Gutenbrunner's new restaurant, Thor, in New York City. Gutenbrunner is also the chef at Wallse and Cafe Sabarsky, which is one of my favorite New York places. The atmosphere, the food, and especially the…
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