“Don’t eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.” This isn’t me talking or even PETA’s latest ad campaign. The line comes from James Joyce’s 1922 classic Ulysses. Ulysses takes place in the course of one day, June 16, 1904, when Leopold Bloom, Joyce’s hapless hero…
Killer Joe
Harvard Women’s Health Watch says moderate coffee consumption can improve cognitive function and improve endurance performance. It’s rich in antioxidants, too. I like antioxidants, I like cognition and endurance. I also like coffee. I try not to drink it, though. I try really, really hard. I limit myself to a cup a week and won’t…
Mother’s Day — Say It With Lentils
She’s probably cooked you upwards of 20,000 meals, so do you think giving mom a wilted bunch of daisies is going to cut it on Mother’s Day? Show her the love. Show her the lunch. Make it yourself. When you’re entertaining, especially when the guest is your mother, timing matters. You don’t want to be…
Lagniappe
While the gumbo promised in my last post is simmering, here’s some lagniappe, the Creole term for a little something extra, no charge. Walking past New Orleans’ Jackson Square Friday morning, I saw this boy wearing a suit and Mardi Gras mask. Why? Who knows, but he was as utterly at ease in his outfit…
Talking With Your Mouth Full
The Common Threads kids worked pasta dough by hand, raising clouds of flour. They cranked the dough through the pasta maker, catching waves of fresh-cut fettucini emerging from the other end. They grated a blizzard of Parmesan as the sauce Bolognaise simmered. and would have kept going had they not worked a significant block of…
The Gift of Food
For my father, it was a ding dong. Vegan and fancified with a swoosh of mulberry coulis, it was actually far beyond your packaged ding dong but it was deeply chocolate cake with a creamy center and a vivid, Proustian reminder of the pleasure of childhood. It was a gift of sorts, for eating…
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Michelle Bernstein, James Beard Award-winning chef and foodie darling, moves in the kitchen like the ballet dancer she once was. This cannot be said of my guys Rudy, Robert, Stefan and Yvan, or indeed any of the kids participating in Common Threads. A national nonprofit program begun in 2003 by Oprah chef Art Smith,…
Banana Bread and the Theory of Relativity
Fabulous art courtesy of the fabulous Philip Brooker. I got thinking about banana bread this morning when I saw the bananas on the kitchen counter had gone all black and gnarly. This is a good thing — tired, past-their-prime bananas are what distinguish a superior banana bread from its pale, dry imitations. My grandmother’s…
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