Thursdays with EFB
I just got the exciting news that I’ll be doing a series of four interviews about EFB on the fantastic Brian Lehrer Show on WYNC (New York’s NPR station), every Thursday morning this month at 10:40. If you’re local, please tune in! Each week will cover a different aspect of the book. I adore the [...]
Friday Food Writers: EFB (aka me)
Well, the time has come. On this, the day after publication and the day of my first official EFB event (at Greenlight Books in Fort Greene, Brooklyn–come on by if you’re in the neighborhood!), I can’t resist giving you a little glimpse at EFB, the book, recipe included, here on Friday Food Writers. I’ve been [...]
Friday Food Writers: Emily Dickinson
I’m on a little Emily tear after reading a new biography of her by Lyndall Gordon. And while I don’t normally think of her as a food person, she did love to garden and bake. At the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. they have a celebration of her birthday every year where her black cake [...]
Friday Food Writers: John McPhee
Long before there was Kitchen Confidential, or Bill Buford in the kitchen at Babbo, or me in the kitchen at applewood, for that matter, there was John McPhee’s brilliant essay about a restaurant’s owner-chefs and its kitchen, “Brigade de Cuisine.” Looking back, this may be the essay that, when I I first read it some [...]
A happy new year
Happy 2010! My year got off to an exciting start when my editor emailed me yesterday to say that Eating for Beginners was just put on Publisher’s Weekly’s list of “10 Most Exciting Food Books of 2010″. Considering the fact that no one (aside from me, my agent, above-mentioned editor and a few select friends [...]
Chesnuts, Food, Memory
I know, I know–I owe you a Friday Food Writers. Actually, I owe you many Friday Food Writers, and several hundred other posts, too. What can I say? Any excuse I could offer, though it would of course (of course!) be true, would probably just annoy you. So instead, I’ll just tell you what’s on [...]
Cooking writer at work (and a recipe)
I’m trying to finish the last round of edits on Eating for Beginners this week, which is my only defense for posting so infrequently (though I’m sure my editor thinks it’s the best defense…). What this means is that in addition to working on the writing, I’m testing out all the recipes included in the [...]
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 [...]
