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- Salade Niçoise À Ma Façon
(Salade niçoise my way, or, the second installment of Salads That Are A Lot Of Work To Make.)
Bon 14 juillet à tous–happy Bastille Day! This salade niçoise is my little way of marking a holiday that I’ve been celebrating since I first began learning French at the age of 4. My parents sent me […]
- I Am Not Being Entirely Serious, And Yet…
Remind me why I went to culinary school again?
Apparently the experience can be replicated at a fraction of the cost by:
(a) purchasing the syllabus in book form
(b) practising the techniques virtually
and
(c) completing several internships from the comfort and safety of one’s living room sofa
[I object to (a) on principle–David Copperfield may as well guest-edit Sawing […]
- A Short History
It’s 1987, and I am a very small, half-Chinese Martha Stewart. For Christmas, I’ve given everybody hand-made, staple-bound books of seasonal jokes and word puzzles (editor: me; difficulty: none). Hand-written in black ballpoint and illustrated in three highlighter colours, they’re ragged where I got impatient tearing off the perforated printer tracks. I have some […]
- My Kind of Comfort Food
Savoy cabbage–what’s not to love? It’s basically a giant Brussels sprout!
The influence of my culinary school indoctrination has been waning over the past few months, and I’m glad of it. All the important techniques I learned are intact–at least I like to think they are–but I am beginning to trust my own palate again. Right […]
