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. [...]
Friday Food Writers: Pablo Neruda
Aaaannnnddd…..I’m back! I’m finding it hard to keep up with the blog in these weird transitional days between summer and autumn. I have a lot of work to do and The Cheese-Hater hasn’t started school yet, which makes blogging challenging. Still, the light on the trees in the park across from my house has that [...]
Friday Food Writers: Mary Cantwell
Yes, it’s the return of Friday Food Writers! I’m out in California, native land of The German Professor (and beloved travel destination of The Cheese Hater, who seems to be a natural-born Californian in spite of having actually been born in the same New York City hospital as his mother….). I try not to bring [...]
Friday Food Writers: Shirley Jackson
This past week I re-read (for about the 8 millionth time–the pleasure of re-reading never dies for me) Shirley Jackson’s Life Among the Savages, possibly the most wickedly funny book ever written about raising children and family life. It’s quite a famous book, though Jackson is most famous for her short story “The Lottery” and [...]
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 [...]
Friday Food Writers: A.J. Liebling
I’m back in Berlin, but in keeping with my week’s travels, I thought it was the perfect time to induct the legendary A.J. Liebling into my Friday food writers pantheon. Born in New York in 1904, Liebling was a journalist who eventually ended up writing for The New Yorker. He loved Paris, where he went [...]
Friday Food Writers: Julian Barnes (with a dash of Joseph Conrad)
Julian Barnes is the author of numerous novels (Flaubert’s Parrot is the best known), but my favorite book of his is The Pedant in the Kitchen a very sympathetic and very funny book of essays about his trials and tribulations as a home cook and his—he feels—nerdy, profoundly human reliance on recipes (“Non-pedants frequently misunderstand [...]
