by Brian | Sep 8, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Please continue to read all of this. Yes, there is diatribe at the beginning, but the beverage that results from all this is spectacular. Really, it is. Ah, the political conventions are over and we have been enlightened and informed. One person said our economic...
by Brian | Sep 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
That picture? It’s a photo haiku. A short reminder of where we are. Summer is rapidly slipping into fall. I found these red leaves on the ground one morning. I looked up to see what tree they had come from. No tree had red at all. These portents of autumn had turned...
by Brian | Sep 6, 2012 | Cooking Classes, News
When Suzi began Cooking by the Book twenty-four years ago, she offered classes to the public. As time went by, our corporate client base rapidly grew in number. We focused on the corporate side and stopped with the public classes. That was then, and now is a new world...
by Brian | Sep 5, 2012 | Recipes
The calendar says that fall is two weeks away. The abundance in our farmers markets says that fall is here. All those apples. All those potential pies. I blogged this pie two years ago. I’m doing it again. We went to a party this weekend where our gracious...
by Brian | Sep 1, 2012 | Recipes
Last weekend Suzen and I had an official “urban weekend.” Rather than go upstate, we decided to enjoy the city. Saturday was a bike ride up the West Side from Tribeca to the George Washington Bridge. Well, we did stop at 97th Street with a flat. You should know...
