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Basil Simple Syrup

Basil Simple Syrup

  With each night, we check the thermometer. When will it finally freeze upstate? Cause on that night our mint patch will be history. The same for all our herbs. We have five or six months of freshness and then it’s a long winter. We can get...
TBT Recipe: Spring Garden Green Tart

TBT Recipe: Spring Garden Green Tart

Today is a little raw in New York City. Spring has yet to really arrive and summer is a month away. I am confused. As usual. But, but, I can go to the market and get spring ingredients from California and Florida. Thank God for cargo jets. Here’s a spring tart...
Fast Apple and Mint Side Dish

Fast Apple and Mint Side Dish

  When Suzen has classes at Cooking by the Book, everybody gets to work in the kitchen. The whole team coming to us is divided up into smaller groups, each group prepares one dish of the meal, they cook for about an hour, and then go eat their creations. It’s all...
Rhubarb Syrup

Rhubarb Syrup

  Ah, that color. That taste! Rhubarb is one of those things that some of us use and most of us do not. That’s a shame for the flavor, which suitably adjusted with sugar, is immense. Delicate and distinctive. I’m presenting the syrup recipe here today. Cocktail...