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- One Way To Deal With Sub-Standard Wine
Whoever came up with the adage, “Don’t cook with a wine you wouldn’t drink”, is an idiot.
He’s an idiot for two reasons. Firstly, unless you just served him a sole Véronique, anyone who claims to be able to taste the quality of a wine through a braising sauce is either seriously delusional or a freak […]
- Putting The Furious Back Into Fine Furious Life
This is one of the rare times I will ever illustrate a post with a photo I didn’t take myself. I went the Google Image route because I knew would have to order the fish to photograph it, and, for reasons that will soon become apparent, that will never happen.
The fish in the picture is […]
- The Top Ten Reasons I Have (Temporarily) Lost Interest In Food Blogging
10. My burgeoning Re-Ment/Pierre Hermé mini-collection is so much cuter to play with.
9. Nobody reads below the photos, anyway.
8. Digital SLR is too clunky to take to restaurants.
7. This moronic article makes me ashamed to be (a) a woman on the internet, (b) a woman, generally, and (c) a reader of the New York Times […]
- Fregola Freak
Fregola. I dreamed up all sorts of reasons to justify my conviction that these chewy little guys were named for strawberries. Fregola sounds awfully similar to fragole, doesn’t it? I figured the Sardinians might enjoy switching vowels, much as Sicilians like to do away with final vowels altogether (prosciutt’, soppressat’): those crazy islanders and their […]
