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- A Last Supper, And My Dessert “Philosophy”
Did I really say that the mango-blueberry galette was going to be the last thing I ever cooked in this kitchen?
Maybe it was nostalgia, maybe it was procrastination. In any case, and instead of packing, I hosted a little dinner for five last night.
The menu:
Chicken-shiitake meatballs with Chinese honey-mustard dipping sauce (a.k.a. the I’m-not-going-to-take-all-these-condiments-with-me-when-I-move-so-let’s-make-a-sauce sauce)
Orecchiette […]
- Dinner At My House
I didn’t grow up in a family that “entertained”.
I’m very pleased for Colette Rossant and Diana Abu-Jaber, whose picturesque childhoods were filled with fat, nurturing women and fragrant hearths, where food was at once emotional sustenance, cultural identity and the mortar that cemented family life. But I, for one, had a mother who had a […]
