How Uncool Am I
I’m looking at my Pandora playlist this morning, thinking… …”Anyone who sees this is going to think I’m a complete and total dork.” Feel free to add stations. Help me. Obviously I’m in need of an intervention.
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Links Du Jour
People are going nuts over Ici ice cream, in Berkeley. Mary Canales rocks. Go eat her ice cream. Tell her I said hi. Not to upstage the timely importance of baby Suri, a reader sends me a link to this (a bit too) juicy history of Chez Panisse from Vanity Fair. Um, thanks for sharing, JT. Spend a week in Gascony, without leavin’ your laptop….
Salted Butter Caramels from Henri Le Roux
I’d like to introduce you to Henri Le Roux. And if you don’t know who Henri Le Roux is, it’s time that you did. Le Caramelier; Salted-Butter Caramel Spread There’s a lot of very talented chocolatiers and pastry chefs in France. Some are quite famous, and some just go to work everyday and do their jobs well. A few have rather large egos, others are…
When Good Fruitcakes Go Bad
I keep a pretty clean house. I bath regularly. So I wondered why there were so many little flies buzzing around me? Up until a few weeks ago, I never had a problem with insects, save for the nightly attacks of mosquitoes (the bane of Parisian summers). So I was wondered why I had so many little visitors flitting about my kitchen. Every year I…
Plum Tuckered
Today I learned something. I learned how to check the statistics on this site. I can learn what other sites lead people here, and how many people visit here each day. I can also see what keywords people are using to find the site. You would think it might be something like, say, ‘Chocolate‘ or ‘Paris‘. Or perhaps it’d be something broader, like ‘Recipe‘ or…
Fleur de Sel
There’s been a lot of discussion about what is the best salt in the world. There are lots of opinions, tastings, and scientific studies floating around. But I’m here to tell you, my absolute favorite salt is Fleur de sel de Guérande. I think there’s no finer salt available anywhere. When I was invited to visit the salt marshes and learn to rake the highly-prized,…
Blog Day 2006: The Morning After
Yesterday was Blog Day 2006, which I’m a bit late for. But here are my choices for 5 food blogs that were either newly created in 2006, or at least new to me this year, that I always enjoy: Check ’em out! Lucy’s Kitchen Notebook Matt Bites Candy Blog 18th Century Cuisine Food Beam (Oh, and in the Miss Congeniality category, Acme Instant Food and,…
By The Hair of My…
I recently got this message from someone asking… “It would be a great help to me if you would be so kind as to just note down some of the problems, bureaucratic and otherwise, you encountered while procuring visas, papers, lodgings, etc.” Since I don’t have the enormous bandwidth to describe the entire process, nor the urge to re-visit those repressed memories, the very short…
Three Perfect Days in Paris
In this month’s Hemispheres, the magazine of United Airlines, I was their guest author for their popular series, Three Perfect Days, where I share some of my favorite tips for three perfect days of travel, sightseeing, and…of course, eating. If you’re flying on United Airlines this month, be sure to pick up a copy. The article is also online at the Hemispheres web site, and…
