Food, cooking, and travel
On a Sunday afternoon in April 1962, my grandfather took me to my first baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. I was in the third grade at the time and was completely in awe as we emerged from the concourse to the stands …
When we visit Paris, we always stay at the same hotel – the Citadines in the 14ème arrondissement. This section of the city is part of Montparnasse, a section most known for what it used to be. Today it is a mixture of residential and …
For the last couple of years, my true love and I have spent American Thanksgiving traveling in Europe. While America’s travel industry is going nuts, late November is a pretty good time to avoid tourist crowds in Europe (if you don’t mind temperatures of 7°C/45°F. …
As I hope you’ve noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a sabbatical for a while. Every once in a while, real life can get in the way and there just aren’t enough hours in the day for everything that you’d like to do. I …
I’ve just returned from a week in Leeds. Leeds is a city in Yorkshire about two hours north of London by train, and I visit it often because my true love works at the University of Leeds and lives there when school is in session. …
Carrots are, by far, the most popular vegetable in this household. No question. We have carrots at least twice a week, but more than that, carrots are the favorite human food of one of Alex, one of our parrots. My true love says over and …
I had an interesting experience the other night. I was at a catered event where the food was really quite good. One of the major reasons I write this blog is to celebrate and share stories about an approach to food that is based on …
So there’s authenticity, and then there’s having fun with ingredients. Last night, I was trying to think of how to pit together my dinner. I had some trout and top round steak, lots of different vegetables, a pile of carrots and onions, and several jars …
A couple of days ago I talked about digital food. The actual incident that got me thinking about ebooks, recipe managers, and all other kinds of ways that food intersects with the new digital era was buying and reading Cooking with Spices by Mark Stevens. …
This article was originally going to be about something else. I was going to do a quick catchup on some of the things I’ve been reading lately, but When I was going through the list of books, I got diverted by Cooking with Spices by …