Bloggus Interruptus

There’ll be no new post from me this week. Being an obsessive/compulsive type, this is making me deeply neurotic. My household is changing internet service providers, which seems to require an unspecified period of time with no Web access. So no matter what I cook, I can’t tell you about it. (This message was set [...]

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Roman Holiday II

I’m only just back from Rome and haven’t started cooking yet. So for something to post this week I’ll show you some pictures I took of the restaurant dishes that Tom and I enjoyed on our vacation. We had our first dinner at La Campana, a very old favorite, classic trattoria near the Piazza Navona. . [...]

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Roman Holiday

There’s no cooking adventure to report today. This week Tom and I are being cooked for. We’re in Rome, where we hope and expect to eat wonderfully. For weeks we’ve been thinking about our favorite trattorias and looking up new ones. We’ll need about six meals a day to cover them all. The new discovery [...]

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On the Trail of the White Truffle

When this post is published Tom and I will be in Italy, traveling through the Piedmont and endeavoring to consume as many white truffles as we possibly can. The month-long White Truffle Fair will still be going on in Alba, and I’m assured that the scent of tuber magnatum pico will be in the air everywhere [...]

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Vacation

I’m away from my kitchen and cookbooks this week, but to give my subscribers and visitors something new to read, let me mention that I’ve created a new blog page featuring my best-beloved kitchen appliances, cookware, and gadgets, some of which you can see in the photo below. You can link to “Favorite Kitchen Toys” [...]

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Week 36: Vacation Again

I’m away from my kitchen and cookbooks again this week, and this time it isn’t primarily a food-and-wine trip. Tom and I are in Greece, circumnavigating the Peloponnesian Peninsula aboard the MS Galileo. The focus of the trip, organized by Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, is Birds and History. That is, we’ll be disembarking to visit [...]

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Week 16: Still Vacation

Last week Tom and I were in Naples; this week we’ve been in Rome. Rome is our favorite foreign city in all the world, and we never tire of visiting it. As a result, we’re pretty well versed in Roman cooking, but we can always hope to find a new dish, or new way to prepare [...]

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Week 15: Vacation

I’ve given myself a dispensation from recipe making for two weeks, because Tom and I are on vacation in Italy. This week we’re in Naples, a city we love in spite of its many flaws and problems. (Not unlike our own New York, in some ways.)  I have a list of favorite restaurants in the city to [...]

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