“I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks” Paul Rudnick I first visited the Union Square Café in the early eighties at its original venue on E 16th Street, way before it relocated...
“The pie-cook and the pie-consumer are both lucky if the smell of the pie ‘sells’ not only its desirability as biological fuel but also remembrance of pies past.” “It could be argued that there is an element of entertainment in every pie, as every pie is...
Elisabeth Luard, in her absorbing book European Peasant Cookery, introduces one of my most treasured poultry dishes from France with the following note from one of her close relatives whom she describes as a ‘gentleman-of-letters’: “Garlic eaters, assuredly wiser than...
Some time ago I joined a trade delegation hosted by the commercial arm of the Spanish Embassy on a visit to Galicia, a region in the north western corner of Spain. Effectively a European jolly with as many wine samples as you could shake a corkscrew at. Flanked along...
In The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley described the past as a foreign country, where they do things differently. I have a feeling author Laura Mason might not find the concept so convincing. In her lengthy introduction to The National Trust Farmhouse Cookbook, published in...
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