Restaurant Week is like my football season – I look forward to it all year and, when it arrives, I research my dining possibilities then plan my life that week around reservations. So I love the title of this article from The Baltimore Sun: Restaurant Week: Research, plot, then dine, written in preparation for Baltimore Restaurant Week, [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Baltimore Restaurant Week, August 7 to 23
Posted in Baltimore, tagged Baltimore restaurants on August 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Food News, August 7, 2009: Decline of Home Cooking, Julie Powell, Julia Child, David Lebovitz
Posted in Books, Food News, tagged cleaving book, crepes, david lebovitz, decline of home cooking, food blogs, julia child, julie & julia, julie powell, michael pollan on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With the release of “Julie & Julia”, many of the food stories this week have some connection to Julia Child, Julie Powell, or Paris: Decline of Home Cooking: In this essay in The New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, uses Julia Child’s heyday, when she taught cooking technique using real ingredients [...]
Vegetable Frittata
Posted in Ingredients, tagged jeffrey steingarten, mark bittman, vegetable frittata on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was young, it was important to my mom that I ate eggs. Maybe that’s because eggs are the perfect food, an ideal combination of protein, fat, and a few carbohydrates. Or it could be because they were inexpensive sources of nutrition. Whatever the reason, she would always make them “really special this time”, [...]
