Easy, delicious duck paired with vibrant red wine
Today, my good friend Alex is receiving the Cartaví Internacional award for the Spanish selection of her wine list at Veritas, in New York. On many a night, Alex and I hosted impromptu…
Read moreReviving Zombie Baguettes
The other day I spied a five-day-old unsliced baguette in my kitchen and satisfyingly kneed it in half. I put more force into it than was necessary, but it felt…
Read moreFlavor-Blasted Spaghetti and Meatballs
I consider myself gifted when it comes to gift giving. Unless a loved one is completely inscrutable, in which case I’ll harness my inner Sherlock and do my best not to succumb…
Read moreA Chicken for Every Broken Heart
There’s only so much consoling one can do over Gchat. I decided to escalate my efforts to help my friend get over a recent breakup by preparing her Dolores’ Brokenhearted Chicken,…
Read moreDon’t Stop Believing
Hold on to that feeling – the feeling that you can eat and drink what you want; the feeling that wine is meant to be savored; the feeling that you…
Read morePunktastic Voyage
“We have a brûlée torch if you want to brûlée anything,” Punky typed to me by way of apology that her oven wasn’t working. This is going to be awesome, I thought!…
Read moreRoots of the Matter
The bottle of 1996 Barbaresco called to me twice. The first time was when I bought it in Baltimore. The second was when I opened it for a special three-year-and-nine-day…
Read moreVouvray Two Ways
“This is it!” a dinner guest exclaimed. “Vouvray is our family wine.” After tasting it, I wished I could have hopped in my DeLorean, hit 88 miles per hour and…
Read moreElegy With Julia
“I told you my Mom met Julia Child, right?” “No, you didn’t. I would have remembered.” “We were at that awesome food store in Cambridge with my parents and my…
Read moreGreens for the Blues
I had hoped that the title of this post would be GOOOOOOOAL ITALIA, but the Spanish national team felt otherwise. After La Furia Roja routed Gli Azzurri 4-0 in the Euro Cup finals on Sunday,…
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