Sunday, August 28, 2005
Tomatoes, A Civilized Restaurant, This Week In Lynbrook
Boy, am I consistent. And proud of it! Last week, I decided to make a warm tomato sauce for pasta that I haven’t made in several years. I had been too lazy in the afternoon to chop the tomatoes for a raw sauce, my original idea, and now I was home from a movie and starving. Besides, one way or another I had to save some tomatoes from rotting. They were on their last legs, having been bought at the Greenmarket at least a week before.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Schwartz in the Times & Sbrisolona, a cake from Mantova
If you didn’t get to read the lovely piece about me and my kitchens by Penelope Green in this past Sunday’s New York Times real estate section – sort of an Arthur Schwartz biography told through my kitchens -- you can still read it on line and see even more Phil Mansfield photos of my apartment than were printed in the paper. The story is called Remembrance of Kitchens Past. There is also an Audio Slide Show called "When One Kitchen Won’t Do." That’s where all the photos are, and with me doing a voice over. Thanks to Samantha Storey for editing that.
I understand they keep these things archived for quite a while, so if you are reading this well after the posting, you should still be able to access the feature and slide show -- somehow.
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Thursday, August 4, 2005
The Hamptons With A Recipe
Last weekend I had a very restful as well as productive time in the Hamptons, as oxymoronic as that sounds. I stayed with novelist Rona Jaffe in Sagaponick. Her first bestseller, “The Best of Everything,” originally published in 1956, has just been re-released and is becoming a bestseller all over again. And the movie version of the book, starring Joan Crawford, Susy Parker, and Eva Marie Saint, has just been released on DVD, with Rona’s voice-over commentary, plus remarks by a film historian. Also at Rona’s for the weekend, were Rozanne Gold, Michael Whiteman and Bob Harned. We are all very old and very close friends, so that was nice -- to be altogether in the same house for a few days. And it was very, very nice that I ate in restaurants only twice in nearly four days. I read (a new food and wine guide to Campania by my friend Carla Capalbo). I swam in Rona’s pool. We all took a walk together on the beach.
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