Cook From Your Heart
I cooked for a French family to earn my keep while I studied as an apprentice chef in Paris. At first, I was completely petrified. Me, cook for French people?! I’d been an enthusiastic cook since I was a teenager so I dove in. Though I was immersed six days a week in a classic […]
Peanut Butter, Home Made
I am often asked what I miss from the U.S. Twenty years ago I had a whole list of things. Ziplock bags. Plush towels. Good coffee. Tax laws I understood. Ready smiles. Organic cheetos. Tillamook or Cougar Gold cheddar. And that one standby, really good peanut butter. Today, all of those things have faded, excepting […]