From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Milling about

30 March 2010

I have great affection for what I think of as bistro styles of food, though this could be a category that exists only in my mind. They are prepared either ages in advance (boeuf bourguignon, lamb shanks, duck confit) or in a very small amount of time just before you want to eat (salad with […]

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Taking stock away

25 March 2010

As I’ve mentioned here before, my interests in food and cooking date to a college study abroad program in Paris. As I’ve also mentioned here before, I knew little about food and nothing about its preparation before I got there. I did not enroll in any formal cooking program; I did have ‘real’ classes to […]

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Green is good

22 March 2010

There is an Italian restaurant off Pimlico Road in London that sits squarely in the old-school. It has a nouveau Milano-type décor with black, white, red leather, and a Sloane ranger-type clientele that matches. The staff are brusque, noisy, and not that nice, unless you’ve ordered the most expensive wine on the list. In the […]

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Mama’s cheese nips

19 March 2010

I like to think I am a competent cook. It could also be that I am terrible at following recipes, which is certainly the case, and sometimes people think that those who don’t use recipes are competent. So I could just be believing the stories other people tell me. But I digress. If I am […]

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Dinner, abbreviated

18 March 2010

People who say they don’t have time to cook are lying. They may not know it, but they are. They might be too tired to cook. They might not know how to cook. They also might not know what to cook. As to the first, there is delivery. If the second or third is the […]

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Pushing poussin

16 March 2010

Last week my meat woman was pushing poussin, holding up the little birds to everyone who passed, extolling their many virtues, delicate flavor, ease of preparation, and other good things. I bought it, so I bought one. Taking my $7, my meat woman boasted that the poussin had been slaughtered at just five and a […]

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I like you

1 March 2010

If you’re visiting my site and I don’t know you, then let me tell you: I like you. Thank you so much for visiting! If you’re visiting my site and I do know you, then you probably do not need me to tell you that I like you. But I can still thank you so […]

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