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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 […]
- 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 […]
- Why I Deserved A Glass Of Wine At 2:30pm, Or, Living Without Maillard
Lately, I’ve asked myself how the World Wide Web would react if I were to turn the focus of this blog from food and cooking to the strange, slowly unfolding joy of combining mailing address and material possessions with one beloved other. A photo of him, aged a distant 24, is pinned to our fridge […]
- I’m Not Proud, But I’m Satisfied
(Welcome to my fridge.)
Moving in with my boyfriend has been riddled with obstacles, but they’ve been obstacles that I’ve met with good cheer–well, as much good cheer as can be summoned by a sensibility permanently set to “tempest in a teapot”, anyway. This morning, however, saw me in a faceoff with The Final Straw.
I haven’t […]
