Our friends Beth and Peter are with us from California for a few days and we’re anxious to share some of Long Island’s best with them. This will include the spectacular weather we’re experiencing, our glorious beaches—less crowded now that a lot of…
The Silver Palate was an iconic and tiny little take-out shop that opened on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1979. It was the brainchild of two women: Julie Russo and Sheila Lukins. Two years earlier, Lukins, divorced from her husband and mother…
You can’t sit down to write a recipe without wondering what constitutes out-and-out thievery. There is no possible way that you yourself could invent something so absolutely new and startling that you could proudly call it yours and yours alone. Everything has to have come…
When I want to cook something as well known as this dish, I love to haul out the cookbooks that contain the recipe and read all of them before I do anything else. Almost inevitably, when it is a signature…
I had a terrific time in Orange County visiting my children. The weather was spectacular, the ocean beautiful and we had some very good food. And talk about photo ops. I took over 600 pictures and my daughter-in-law Kym just sent me another 500 so…
PONANT EXPLORES THE GLOBE WITH A DECIDEDLY FRENCH ACCENT.
