by Brian | Sep 20, 2011 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
When I was a freshman at Reed College, everyone had to take a class called Humanities 101. The premise of the class was simple: in the past 3000 years Western civilization has created many classic works of prose and poetry — in this class you had to read every single...
by Brian | Sep 18, 2011 | Recipes
I do love chicken wings and I’m fortunate to live just a few block from a spot, Walker’s, in Tribeca that has awesome, fire hot, sweat inducing wings. Before Buffalo wings were invented up in wonderful Buffalo, New York, chicken wings were scrap. You’d toss...
by Brian | Sep 8, 2011 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
“What do you think?” I asked Suzen proudly. I hadn’t seen a look like this on her face in over twenty years. “No,” she said quietly. “But,” I began, astounded. “I mean no,” her voice was forceful. “No one has ever written a cookbook like this,” I emphasized. She...
by Brian | Aug 22, 2011 | Recipes
The birthday party we attended this weekend was catered. Same firm as last year. Same incredibly beautiful arrays of crudités and cheeses. I appreciated the quality and the presentation, but honestly my mind was elsewhere. I waited, expectantly, for dessert to appear....
by Brian | Aug 9, 2011 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Dickens wrote about the best of times and the worst. Today, Dorie Greenspan made it simpler: just go out and bake a good cookie. These are dark days. Standard and Poor’s has rated us AA+, instead of AAA, and the stock market has nosedived. Think about it? Why should...
