On Slow-Roasted Roots and Bright Greens
A warm roast. The oven had already been warm for some time when these dishes began to take shape: the quiet sort of warmth that…
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On First Tastes and Little Pleasures
These are the first tastes. There is a moment, just before a meal properly begins, when the kitchen falls briefly quiet. The oven door has…
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On Taste, Money, and the Courage to Choose
Taste is intelligence, and there is a particular silence that follows a well-considered choice. It is not the silence of hesitation. It is the silence…
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On Beginning with Pride and Prejudice
“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.” – Pride and Prejudice It is not, perhaps, the most gracious sentence with which to…
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Date and Tahini Squares
Late afternoon in early autumn has a particular sort of light, softer than summer, but not yet surrendered to winter, and it was in that…
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On Opening the House
There are houses one passes without noticing.And there are houses one enters slowly, as though something within might change the rhythm of one’s breathing. Maison…
