Archive for March, 2015
SPRING FLING: PASTA PRIMAVERA
Given the hard winter and cold, snowy spring we’ve had in the Northeast, the growing season is weeks behind schedule. Heaven knows when we’ll see the first local asparagus and peas—let alone tender, slender green beans and (dare to dream!) sun-ripened tomatoes. In other words, a visit to the farmers market is more about foraging than shopping. […]
Posted: March 31st, 2015 under cookbooks, culinary history, early spring, Gourmet magazine, recipes.
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BUTTERY BRAISED ENDIVES
It took me a long time before I could admit how much I dislike barely cooked vegetables. I realize I am in the minority; most folks love them, especially this time of year, when heavy winter food has palled. Granted, their crispness and bright colors have a clean, minimalist appeal, but I find them squeaky in the […]
Posted: March 18th, 2015 under cooking, early spring, recipes.
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BONNIE’S BACK!
Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, a blog by Jeremiah Moss, is a must-read for a certain kind of New Yorker. The writing is fine and knowledgeable, and the losses and injustices chronicled there in this Age of the Greedy Landlord are the sort of thing one chews over at three o’clock in the morning, when righteous indignation or, on […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2015 under cookbooks, people + places.
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