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- Hot climes, lean times
I am trying to direct my nervous energy and diva-like personality towards a job that challenges and fulfills me in a way that public relations never did. Meanwhile, I have been spending time in a pastry kitchen.
Working as a pastry cook in a busy restaurant means that I have some reasonable knife skills. It also […]
- Truffled Green Bean Casserole With Golden Shallots
The first time I tried green bean casserole was at a barbecue joint here in New York City named Hill Country. Yes, the brisket was spectacular; yes, the slow-cooked chicken was silky perfection. But one taste of those crispy fried onions and the rest of the table was going to have to fight me for […]
- Southern Crack, or Country Clafoutis
For me, the American South has always been the very height of exoticism. Europe? Old hat. Growing up in Hong Kong, I was the weird teenager who went to Tower Records only to buy copies of the Oxford American. I became obsessed with Carson McCullers, and started writing a short story set in Pine Bluff, […]
- P Party
I swear, this was totally unplanned.
I was almost done throwing together one of my famous whatever’s-in-my-pantry-plus-a-poached-egg-for-protein lunches before I noticed that every ingredient in my impromptu dish began with the letter P.
Which would not in itself be very remarkable, I suppose, were it not for a somewhat traumatic school event I attended at a very […]
