Monday, May 30, 2005
Smelling My Own Coffee
I’m back. I love to travel, but I love to come home, too. After four days of touring, eating, and drinking around Verona, a day in Venice, a cruise on the luxurious Crystal Serenity that took us to the Greek islands of Santorini and Mykanos, a Greek pile of rocks called Monemvasia, a port in Turkey, and then to Athens, where I stayed for three more days, it was, as my friend Rozanne Gold puts it, time to come home and smell my own coffee. Actually, my first morning home, Friday morning, I drank tea. I thought it would be better for the head cold that came home with me.
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Sunday, May 1, 2005
Japanese TV and Notes on Passover Recipes
It was a hectic last week. As you know, “Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food” was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, as well as best American cookbook. Many of you sent me wonderful congratulatory notes. Thank you, thank you. And I have gotten other attention. Right now, a Japanese TV crew is following me around. Last Tuesday, they were in my apartment all day, shooting me (and Lou DiPalo) while we were on the radio, interviewing Lou, interviewing me, taking shots around my house – my books, my cooking equipment. I felt slightly invaded. What won’t I do to become the next big thing in Japan?
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