by Brian | Aug 21, 2018 | Recipes
In her new and delightful The Art of the Party Kay Plunkett-Hogge’s expertise is on full display. Drinks and noshes of all shapes and size and flavors roll off the pages of this tidy and most helpful book. Here’s one idea: serve little shots of soup. Kay offers...
by Brian | Oct 17, 2017 | Recipes
I don’t remember when I first ate a red pepper. Sometime in my thirties I expect. My mother believed in canned vegetables. The only Italian food we enjoyed came in cardboard boxes made by Kraft. It was a different world. My first pepper experience was intense. One...
by Brian | Oct 13, 2017 | Recipes
Sometimes this recipe is confusingly called “White Gazpacho.” It’s actually tomato‑free, but does incorporate the stale bread of “authentic” gazpacho, a peasant dish that was decidedly not “upscale” when first created. If you were living in Spain, you would blanch the...
by Brian | Oct 8, 2017 | Recipes
You may recall the story of King Canute, the monarch who went to the beach and commanded the tide to stop coming in. He failed. Hubris. I have a more reasonable belief. I still wear shorts in November. And I eat summer food. And I do believe I push back the onset of...
by Brian | Oct 4, 2017 | Recipes
To get what I want from my wife Suzi, I resort to different means. This time, I decided to be simple, honest and straightforward. “I would like some gazpacho,” I announced. She turned to me. Normally, I am the gazpacho maker. I continued, “There is this White Gazpacho...
