19 July 2010
I have a habit of reading cookbooks like most people read novels, with the frequent result of winding up hungry. Or – somewhat more embarrassingly – nodding off at night, dreaming of dinner, and then winding up hungry for some dish, ingredient, or another. At 4:30 in the morning. This happened once with lentils. I’d […]
12 April 2010
Now that we have the black truffle genome mapped, the time has come to eat it, too. Truffles of all kinds tend to pair well with delicate things. White truffles shaved over fresh pasta or a poached egg, for example. Black truffles stirred into a creamy risotto, or stuffed under the skin of a chicken […]