Pizza!
Pizza became the most common confinement food, I discovered in an unofficial poll. In my former one kilometer of freedom I counted 25 restaurants offering pizza for take-away. Makes sense. …
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Pizza!
Northpork
Maine
My recent visit to Maine was a patchwork of memories and a blossoming of experiences to add to them. I moved there two minutes before my son was born, nearly…
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Maine
Annagassan
Ireland – Trad Music, Brown Bread, and the 99
Begorrah. Slainte. Shite. That’s about the sum of my Irish vocabulary, which I learned after spending a short week in the Ancient East coastal area of rolling green hills, gently…
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Ireland – Trad Music, Brown Bread, and the 99
Poached Eggs
What is more wonderful than a poached egg? Many things, perhaps, but not when you've been traveling, or you're in a hurry, or your child has a performance and you've…
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Poached Eggs
The Best Summer Snack
This is the best summer snack ever, one I discovered a million years ago on a Tuscan farm, and am revisiting in a Tuscan village. It's so easy. Take the…
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The Best Summer Snack
For a perfect cheese tray, go raw milk and as local as possible. Go creamy to harder, and end with gentle, salty softness, like a Roquefort. Four or five cheeses is plenty - more becomes confusing.
Cutting into Cheese
I see it all the time. The cheese tray arrives and everyone around the table is in awe. The awe stems from the shape and variety of the cheeses, their aromas…
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Cutting into Cheese
Crisp Chicken with Cilantro Oil
A Taste of Asheville October 1 – 3
Step Right Up!!! You don't want to miss the Asheville Class where for three days we cook, we learn, we laugh and we get out into the countryside to see…
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A Taste of Asheville October 1 – 3
Filling and rolling grape leaves (with rice and beef), Hidirbey Village
Tasty Turkey – Visions of Hatay
Thanks to a wonderful event called Mediterranean Culinary Days (admirably organized by Adnan Sahin, the president of the Anatolian Folk Cuisine Association), I spent three days in Antakya (Antioch), a city in…
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Tasty Turkey – Visions of Hatay
At my local épicerie fine, Maison Clet
Create a Cheese Tray for Easter
The cheese course is one of the crowning glories of French cuisine. It arrives at the end of the meal, before dessert, because cheese contains enzymes that help with digestion. …
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Create a Cheese Tray for Easter
Coddled egg
Restaurant L’Itineraire and its Vegetables
The rain has been unbelievable. Paris was submerged the other night, enveloped in a steady drizzle that penetrated everything, including my raincoat, as I walked down Boulevard St. Germain on…
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Restaurant L’Itineraire and its Vegetables