From the category archives:

winter

Brittle

7 March 2011

Brittle (adj.): Hard and sharp.  Showing signs of instability. There went February.  January, too.  This space’s first birthday has come and gone without note, and I’m afraid to say that I’ve been cooking just about as much as this site suggests, which is to say, not so much. But there was brittle.  It’s particularly good […]

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Happy New Year!

8 January 2011

Merry Christmas!  Happy New Year!  Joyeuse Épiphanie!  And all that.  This site missed them all, of course, though its writer, happily, did not.  There was cold weather and there were airplane rides and train rides and taxi rides and car drives.  People at airports can get awfully mad.  But then we were all there, and […]

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Of geeky cooking and the Christmas spirit

20 December 2010

By virtue of the fact that I own and run this website, I am most likely a geek. But not, perhaps, as geeky as the best of them.  Them, I mean.  Those Boston Brahmin types (in a good way!) who know all about the science of cooking, test recipes they know won’t work so that […]

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Taking stock away

25 March 2010
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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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As you like it

15 February 2010
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Cassoulet can be made in any of an infinite number of ways. If you get excited about this sort of thing (I do.), then it makes you wonder what the thing is, other than a word. A friend had been prattling on about his love for the dish for weeks. When finally asked what goes […]

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