Archive for January, 2012
OBSESSION: NORDIC RYE BREAD
My obsession with rye bread began when I was a little girl. My grandmother would help me make dainty sandwiches on pieces of cocktail rye and cut them just so. I served them with tea on the lawn to a motley collection of dolls and stuffed animals. Other offerings included corn-silk or asparagus-frond spaghetti and […]
Posted: January 25th, 2012 under obsession, people + places, recipes, Union Square Greenmarket.
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COOKING ON ONE BURNER
Recently, our stove, an increasingly temperamental 35-year-old Imperial range, busted. I mean, really busted. My husband, Sam, and I were philosophical about this turn of events, having seen it coming a mile off. In fact, we’ve talked about a modest renovation of our postage stamp–sized kitchen (it’s 6 by 8 feet, minus appliances and counter) […]
Posted: January 17th, 2012 under cookbooks, kitchen equipment, recipes.
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FLASHBACK: LUNCH WITH EVE ARNOLD
The death of the great documentary photographer Eve Arnold on January 4 was not exactly unexpected—she was 99, after all—but it caught many people up short, including me. Eve’s outsize stamina and spirit as well as her matchless ability to “record the essence of a subject in the 125th of a second,” as she put […]
Posted: January 11th, 2012 under favorite books, food, Gourmet magazine, people + places.
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FROMAGE FORT: GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS
When does collecting become hoarding? At what moment does ripeness slip-slide into decay? Funny, the things that go through my mind while editing the contents of the refrigerator, especially when I get to the designated cheese corner. It’s heaped with rather too many odd-shaped little parcels—our entertaining and general all-around indulgent spree began at Thanksgiving—and […]
Posted: January 3rd, 2012 under cooking, recipes, Union Square Greenmarket.
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