Lear: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks! Kent: Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night Love not such nights as…
Nancy Harmon Jenkins
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Apple pie for breakfast! My first job many years ago was at a B&B on a sheep farm where the farmer had his breakfast after tending his animals and before going off…
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Cortona:–The new season Valdichiana peaches, just starting to come in, are full of the most incomparable flavor. How to describe it? Words fail. I could say wine, I could say honey, I…
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My friend Roger asked me to write about this phenomenon, the bistecca chianina, which is much written about, much misunderstood, and much misrepresented. We had dinner, Roger, his wife, a coupla friends,…
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This is Rosy Grottoli, chef at Masseria Fumarola, which will be our home in October and again in November for AmorOlio in Puglia, six days honoring the cuisine and culture…
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Just heard the news about Union Square Café and I’m shocked. Though I haven’t dined there much of late, it’s always been one of my favorite New York restaurants, as it has…
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So what do you do, I am frequently asked, with all that time you spend in Italy? What do I do? I stand in line. This is the post office in Camucia where…
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Busiate al Pesto Trapanese When a Sicilian friend Gabriella Becchina took me a couple of years ago to Mulini del Ponte, a grist mill in the heart of Castelvetrano, her hometown in southwestern…
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I love the bread I’ve been making since taking a terrific one-day class in sourdough with Sharon O’Leary at King Arthur Flour’s Baking Education Center in Norwich, Vermont (www.kingarthurflour.com/baking/). That…
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At New York’s Roger Smith Hotel, a mere stone’s throw or pigeon flight from Grand Central Station, for the fourth or fifth (or maybe sixth) year in a row–I can’t find out…
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I just spoke on the phone for 22 minutes, in my gravelly early-morning voice (with a cold coming on yet), with an Italian radio interviewer about Italian/Mediterranean food and its influence on…