Suzi and I just celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary. She was the first Jewish girl I ever dated. And the last. Suzi and I immediately clicked because we both love food and already...
I know the picture is not quite the best, but think of it as real-time journalism. This weekend, we were celebrating our wedding anniversary: the 33rd. It’s a personal record for us,...
Unprecedented. Bake by Rory Macdonald is a baking book unlike any you have ever seen. It is, for certain, a baking book that you must have in your kitchen. Rory knew by age twelve he...
A couple of weeks ago I posted an artichoke recipe from Piedmont [foot of the mountains] in Northern Italy. That recipe for Artichokes with Egg and Lemon Sauce surprised me: eggs and...
Suzi was doing her semi-annual labor of love: fashioning a new menu for her cooking school, Cooking by the Book. It’s the only fully hands-on cooking school in New York City, so she has to...
It seems impossible that this TBT cookbook appeared five years ago. Suzi and I turn to books by the Caldesis almost every day. This book on preserving is in a class by itself, an encyclopedia of all...
Summer heat means the berries are ripe, rich and sweet. So, for this week’s TBT recipe here’s a Blueberry Crumb Cake that you can use 7X24. It’s great for breakfast, of...
Suzi and I will always remember our first morning in Paris with total recall. Well, the afternoon with recall. We had taken a Red Eye from New York and got to Paris around noon. We were dead...
In her lovely In the French Kitchen with Kids, Mardi Michels displays her love of French food and the elegant, elevated cuisine she ate when living in Paris. Of course, she admits, she had...
If you say “French Onion Soup” who can resist? Not me. Not any time of year. From famed French chef Michel Roux comes this Norman version of the classic. There are the familiar chicken stock...
Andalusia is the southern-most tip of Spain. It is a region of mountains, hills, rivers and fields bounded by a seacoast that is abundant with fish, shellfish, octopus and other delights....
I had a bad Sunday. I went outside to garden at our Catskill house, but I was really just doing patio and walkway cleanup. Weekend houses need weekend work. Yet, I did not weed. I did...
The lovely book Mediterranean by Susi Theodorou has this impressive Venetian Spring Risotto. In the book, this is titled Risi Bisi with Farro but this dish is from Venice and is based on...
It’s June 6, the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. On that day, 125,000 mostly British and American troops undertook the greatest sea invasion in history. D-Day...
Today’s TBT recipe was brought to you seven years ago by Suzi. She’s never been a fan of iceberg lettuce but this recipe changed her mind. It’s most refreshing on warm days,...
As summer approaches, we happily await each year’s new batch of barbeque books — and grilling and smoking. I’m non-partisan here. Lately, barbeque books have gotten big: hundreds of pages,...
A year ago Suzi and I were spending April in Sicily. Giant artichokes were on the menu in every restaurant. And you could buy them for about $0.30. Yeah, 30 cents. From the Time-Life Series...
I am not a breakfast person, unless you can offer me toast with strawberry jam and a cup of cocoa topped with whipped cream. Lately, I’ve begun the switch to a double shot of espresso and a...
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