Berlin on My Mind
Today is The Cheese-Hater’s first day of preschool here in New York. Those of you who have been reading for a while may remember my posts about some of the things that went on at his fantastic school in Berlin, which we all loved. I’m pretty sure we’re going to love his new school, too. [...]
Cheese-Hater Newsflash
Last night, I had dinner with someone who has read my blog but whom I had never met before. (She happens to have a blog of her own, and to be newly engaged to a close friend of ours with a blog of his own. And yes, they met and fell in love via their [...]
Dutch treat
Thursday and Friday of last week were holidays here in Germany. The Cheese-Hater was off from school, and though we swore a few weeks back that we’d stop traveling constantly and just enjoy the cheeseless spring and early summer here in Berlin, when we realized we’ll be back in New York about a month from [...]
Friday Food Writers: Elizabeth David
British cookbook author Elizabeth David, who died in 1922, is widely credited not only with a beautiful prose style (even her recipes read like little essays rather than lists) but also with introducing Italian and French food to England–where many of the ingredients they called for, like eggplant and even pasta were hard to find–after [...]
April in Paris
Apologies for the sporadic posting this week. I’m in Paris, where I’m deeply involved in a project I’ll call The Continuous Consumption of Carbohydrates. It’s very hard to write when you’re surrounded by pain au chocolate, souffles, and many, many other delicious items. Last night at dinner I had cassis macaroons. Tonight, I’m gunning for [...]
Local favorites: Spargel (with recipe)!
It is Spargel season in Germany. “Spargel”, though it just means “asparagus”, tends to refer to white asparagus that are thicker and sweeter than the green ones we usually eat in the US and are much-revered in these parts. At this time of year, there’s as much Spargel here as there is cheese in the [...]
Local favorites: Stockholm redux–shrimp frenzy!
I’ve only been to Sweden twice, but if I could, I would move there just for the shrimp. On Friday, I told you I am a poet. Today, I confess something else: I am shrimpaholic. This makes Sweden the ideal place for me, because they serve these delectable crustaceans, called räkor, pretty much all the [...]
