If you’ve spent any time reading this blog, you know I am a huge fan of Trader Joe’s and not just because there happens to be one just three blocks from our place in the city. I will suffer the crowds for the convenience and…
Several years ago we discovered the joy of watermelon and tomatoes combined in a salad that takes advantage of these summer favorites. We enjoyed it again and again and if you haven’t tried it, you should too. Here is the recipe that brought the salad…
Anthony Bourdain is an astonishingly good food writer, right up there with MLK Fisher in my book. Before he became a familiar figure on Television and the star of his former show “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” and “The Layover” and his current one on…
Cold Soup is ideal to have on hand in summer heat. You can make this soup up, store it in the fridge and then take it out and finish it off for any occasion. When houseguests first arrive, they’re inevitably exhausted from their trip…
I just left Montreal, where I was born and where my family had roots going back three generations before we all left at the height of the Separatist movement. This ‘revolution’ scared the bejesus out of the Anglos in the province…
OVER THE HOLIDAYS I JUMPED AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE FRENCH ONION SOUP. Locked in the house on a streak of cold, rain-soaked days, I had plenty of time to make this French Classic. Caramelized onions cooked in a rich, beefy broth, topped with…
PONANT EXPLORES THE GLOBE WITH A DECIDEDLY FRENCH ACCENT.
