The frugality of Italian cooking contradicts the laws of nature; Italians cook with almost nothing. Click to continue »
April, 2011
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Peppe’s Grandmother’s Stew; Cooking with Italian Economy
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011“Feast” and a visit with Pier Gustafson
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Each year the Brickbottom Artist Association in Somerville offers a group show of their work organized around a central theme; this year it’s “Feast,” a range of art sometimes cheeky sometimes folksy sometimes Dutch Master, from photography to monoprint, garlic to plums. Click to continue »
The Women of Chive and I invite you:
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Eating from the Center of The Diving Board. Coffee and Sardines with Steve Johnson.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
There really is something called the Sardine Diet, which I discovered while having coffee and sitting around googling “sardines” with Steve Johnson, the chef and owner of Rendezvous in Central Square, Cambridge. Click to continue »
EatBoutique Giftbox. Brookford Farm. Beurre de Montpellier.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Give, give, and make. Here are three ideas that accelerate spring: a gift, a gesture that may help save a first-generation family farm, and a recipe from Languedoc, France that bundles fragrant spring herbs into one intense package, to be melted slowly over fish and chicken all summer. Click to continue »
Tourteau Fromage
Monday, April 11th, 2011
There are not many dishes left in the world that surprise. I first tasted Tourteau Fromage an unmentionable number of years ago when my brother brought it back from a trip to France. A great black puff of goat cheese, egg, and pastry, was it sweet bread, short cake, or inflated tart? We didn’t even know if it was dinner or dessert, but we all knew it was amazing. Still, the dish was so obscure that until the wonders of Google, even the researchers at Gourmet Magazine, to which I wrote requesting information, were stumped. Click to continue »
Two Men and the Sea
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
I was on my way to Harvard to hear a talk by Barton Seaver, a chef who is considered an expert on ocean sustainability, and is now a fellow at National Geographic and the Blue Ocean Institute, when I stopped at Starbucks for a coffee, opened my ipad to The Gloucester Times, and read that local lobsterman Peter Prybot had died.
Dinner with Amelia and Nico
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Amelia O’Reilly and Nico Monday arrived in Gloucester last spring with beaming smiles and an enormous paella pan. They rented a pile of gray timbers simply called The Market at Lobster Cove in Annisquam and turned it into one of the best food destinations on Cape Ann, limiting the menu only to what they could find in the fields and fish markets from Lanesville to Maine. Click to continue »
