From the category archives:

salad

Potato salad with grainy mustard

17 August 2010

MF has moved house! Sigh. Not really, but I have put my entire life in boxes, and am two weeks away from seeing them again. Why is moving always so traumatic? Even if you know exactly where you will wind up on the other end, and even if you’re excited about the move (I was! […]

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Figs + basil

29 July 2010

My parents had a fig tree at their house when my sister and I were growing up. My sister was too small at that time, but my girlfriends and I would run around the yard in summer and after school. The lower branches from the magnolia trees had been cut down because my mother was […]

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Ottolenghi love, part II

12 July 2010

I once spent a short amount of time in London working on a book project. To compensate for the brevity of my stay, perhaps, as well as the attending traumas of making frequent moves, the gods gave me the best officemate ever. A German who spoke the Queen’s English better than I ever could or […]

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Ottolenghi’s farro + roasted pepper salad

4 July 2010

Happy 4th of July! Or, if you are in Britain and feeling curmudgeonly: Happy Treacherous Ungrateful Insurrectionary Day! Our cousins who feel this way—and particularly that one who wrote to wish me a Happy Treacherous Ungrateful Insurrectionary Day—may be overlooking those somewhat awkward matters of tax (too much) and representation (too little). Lest you think […]

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Thai beef salad

24 May 2010

I once took a couple of classes on Thai cooking at a French restaurant in China. Makes sense, no? In point of fact it does, which is the beauty of Shanghai city’s culture (though I am bereaved to know that the pajama party will be ceasing soon). But that is not the subject of my […]

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Asparagus boat

6 May 2010

I’ve missed the boat on a lot of things this week. Tuesday was May Fourth, perhaps an interesting day to think about Chinese food, and Wednesday was Cinco de Mayo, probably a nice day to think about Mexican food. But there were other things going on in my world both yesterday and the day before […]

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Les carottes râpées

1 April 2010

‘This is very good for jetlag’ were the words accompanying my carrot salad. I’d arrived in France months ago, but it didn’t seem worth belaboring the point. Besides, I was sitting in a grandiose apartment belonging to my grandparents’ friends and busy feeling out of place. The space sprawled, the language flew over my ears, […]