Thursday, July 28, 2005
Summer Recipes, Hamptons Appearances
I was just sitting here contemplating what to cook in the next few days and weeks. I go to the Greenmarket and some days I don’t know where to start there is so much gorgeous produce from which to choose. I am always trying new recipes – it’s my job. But then, I miss many of the dishes I used to make, and to that end I was reading through the Maven’s Index, the section on my website that I feel is much underused by you all.
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Saturday, July 23, 2005
Two weeks of busy-ness
It has been a busy, busy couple of weeks, which is why I haven’t written sooner.
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Friday, July 8, 2005
Minestrone ... and a reminder
I just noticed that I don’t have a minestrone recipe on this website. It seems unbelievable, given that I probably make minestrone more often than I make anything else, with the exception of spaghetti. Of course, there is a minestrone recipe in my book Soup Suppers, and I still make it pretty much the same way – building the soup by sautéing each vegetable in succession. In Italian, this technique is called insaporire. Loosely translated, it means to insavor, although I am not sure that is even a real English word. But you get the idea: you’re drawing out the flavor of each ingredient so they will blend together in the end.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Quiet in Restaurants
In the city that never sleeps, a quiet table in the corner has become the ultimate luxury. It’s often the little things that count the most. A rich, self-made man who lives in a venerable Park Avenue apartment was asked -- this is a true story -- to name his ultimate luxury. He said, “Good water pressure every morning.”
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