by Brian | Jul 12, 2017 | Recipes
“How long have you been here?” I asked the waitress. Suzi and I were in Giorgione, a new restaurant we found in Soho, eleven blocks from where we live. “Oh, I think, we have been here fifteen years,” the waitress said. Uh, “new for us” restaurant I guess. I felt a...
by Brian | Jul 12, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Sometimes a good thing simply gets better. Jacques Pepin created spectacular books in the 1970s, La Technique and La Methode. There were recipes there, to be sure, but the core of those heavily illustrated books — hundreds of black-and-white photographs — was the...
by Brian | Jul 11, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Stephen Raichlen is one of America’s foremost barbecue gurus. He was trained for this from his college days. He was a French Lit major at Reed. Okay, French to fire? He went Paris and studied cooking, surely easier with fluency in French. And then he’s gone on to...
by Brian | Jul 11, 2017 | Recipes
For 20 years, Charles Phan’s The Slanted Door has spotlighted modern Vietnamese cuisine with élan and boldness. I reviewed the book earlier. Here is one of the recipes that make this book so appealing. There is a look, a complexity to Asian cuisine that we often do...
by Brian | Jul 8, 2017 | Recipes
It’s not Throwback Thursday, but it is time to revisit a friend. My daughter Kelly is in from Seattle. She brings a modest suitcase each time and a bigger cooler of Northwest goodies. See what you can do her with smoked salmon, real Seattle-made smoked salmon....
