Here it is: The Sisyphean effort to achieve a blank slate, literally
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This snap could be in the backyard of anyone I grew up with in Savannah, Georgia, but it’s actually from a trendy area of Tel Aviv
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Google “Chess Pie”: It has a rich, but uncertain etymology. Kinda like life itself?
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Care to argue about this word?
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Let’s face it: How often do you get the chance to use the term “mortar & pestle” in a sentence
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Blind-baking a pie shell for a key lime pie hit me from out of nowhere.
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My kitchen is a lot narrower than a mile. Can’t say I cross it with style either
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"That’s How it Goes. Everybody knows”
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You take a fairly expensive food item and you stretch it out with whatever you have around to make it go further,
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One of my favorite things to do as part of pre-prep is to make compound butters, especially maitre d’hotel butter
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“It means white woods.”
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Back in my teens, the butcher shop was the wild, wild west of the food market.
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Fresh, beautiful-looking produce was always something of a family obsession.
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So I buy my pasta now. But it’s not the same. Not even close.
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“I know up on top you are seeing great sights. But down at the bottom, we too should have rights.”
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It is a bit humbling to be invited into the quirks of people’s lives. We are all much stranger and more interesting than outward appearances let on.
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(surely you can finish that ellipsis yourself)
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