Go to Recipe Go to Video I love Paris in August. The streets are calm but not empty; the cafes the same. The rhythm on the street is a few steps slower than at other times of year and, in the case of this year, the temperatures couldn’t be better. Cool in the morning, warm …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Part 1 of our Four Part Mini Series: Do you love it, or do you hate it? There isn’t any middle ground when it comes to eggplant. And I’m here to convince you to love it. Because eggplant is one of the most universal, loveable, delicious vegetables ever invented! …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Even when you cook for a living as I do, there are those evenings where everyone is hungry and there’s no menu plan at all. And you cannot raise a family on nuts, seeds, and dried fruit no matter how good they are for you! “Go To” Ease So, …
Go to Recipe Go to Video From the minute I had the first bite of this cake, on a farm in the hills of Montana, I was in love. There was the setting, of course, which was a an old-fashioned, light-filled kitchen on the farm of Aili and Bill Takala, who had raised animals and …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Carrot. With your frothy greens and your vivid root you should be queen but are, instead, the perfect handmaiden. You are loved by all, for without your wispy grated strands Jello would be simply shaky, without your chunks, stew a sham, without your ever-present economy, the restaurant plate a …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Just as strawberries hit their seasonal stride – late may to early June – apricots arrive on the scene. As the strawberry season lengthens, so the apricot season seems to come earlier each year, which may be because those who tinker with the fruit we eat are always trying …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Impromptu meals are one of my favorite kinds for neighbors or friends, visitors who arrive early or are hungrier than they expected to be. And then there are the meals that are planned but a day is much busier than expected. In either case there is often little time …
Go to Recipe Go to Video The very opening of the meal, those first tastes as people arrive, is my favorite moment. In France we call this moment the “apéritif” or, more colloquially, the “apéro” though technically this refers just to the drink. The food is called “amuse bouche” or amuse the mouth. And this …
Go to Video Oh how I love the “marché alimentaire,” the farmers’ market. In Paris, in Louviers, in anywhere I can find one! The market is the theater of life, brought together in all its variety both in the vendors who hawk their wares, and the customers of every ilk who stroll through, rush with …
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Bonjour From Paris, Friends! This upcoming week includes Bastille Day, and the country is vibrating with excitement. Unlike last year, this year anyone who wants to can watch the fireworks live, “elbow to elbow” with their friends, neighbors, and strangers from the world over. Because Bastille Day is THE national holiday, and because the French …