Sometimes, you just crave a classic dish. Food that brings you back to a different time and place. Food like you mother made when you were a child. Food that makes you feel good and brings back memories. The truth is Proust’s In Remembrance of Things Past, a huge collections of stories covering the history …
This post is about baguettes. The rest is extra. For a while now, I’ve been baking bread and have held the baguette in utmost esteem amongst its glutenous brethren. There is something very magical about a great baguette. The bread you can eat on its own. The texture and flavors enough to satisfy the palette. …
I have a weakness for good french fries. I’ll be completely satisfied, verging on stuffed, but if there are fries on my plate, I just can’t seem to stop myself. You know the story. You’re chatting away with your dining companions, meal finished, having a good time. A healthy stack of fries sits uneaten on …
I hate most pork chops. Ok, maybe not hate. Pork chops and I have this…relationship. They make all these sweet promises and never deliver. Sitting in front of my empty plate feeling disappointed and betrayed, I always swear them off. Everything is fine until one day, suddenly, when I least expect it, they’re back looking …