The Wednesday Chef

Month: April 2009

  • April in Paris

    The magic started right away, on the RER train to Paris from the airport, when two men carrying huge bunches of lilacs got on and sat next to us, their fingernails rough and grimy, chapped hands clutching the ragged ends of the lilac branches. They let us smell the flowers, us lilac-deprived New Yorkers, groggy…

  • Francis Lam’s Baked Rice

    It may have to do with the fact that in just over 24 hours I'll be on an airplane to Paris with my girlfriends, for my first trip there since my mother and I met up in the Marais for a weekend four years ago, but I can't seem to focus on any kind of…

  •   Hello! I’m Luisa Weiss, an Italian-American writer and home cook based in Berlin, and this is my food blog.   You can also find me on my professional site, or on Instagram or Facebook.   Contact me at luisa(at)luisaweiss(dot)com.   How I got started: I was born in Berlin and grew up in both Berlin…

  • Pietro Gangemi’s Torta di Carciofi

    Readers, forgive me. I first told you about the wonderful torta di carciofi my uncle made over New Year's in January, promising you the recipe soon, and, well – uh – it's Tax Day. Okay, so consider this my Tax Day present to you! Or a belated Easter gift! I finally converted his recipe from…

  • Mark Bittman’s Egg Noodles with Soy Broth

    I may have been raised by a Roman in an extended family of Italo-Saxon gourmands, but I will have you know that I periodically, in high school, did indulge in an after school snack comprised of two slices of German Schwarzbrot sandwiching an oozy crimson layer of ketchup. Yes! It's true. I used to eat…