I’m having a hard time putting together two versions of the same reality. In recent weeks I’ve been reading with great interest Isabel Wilkerson’s fine book, The Warmth…
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WHEN MY LATE sister-in-law Ann Jenkins Lindemulder returned to Cambridge, Mass., after five years in what was then called Burma, she brought back a number of souvenirs. These included a bronze Karen…
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The solstice! And Maine is at its most glorious—the longest, sweetest days of the year. Even on a day like today when rain clatters on the rooftops and soaks deep into the…
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Cooking with extra-virgin: It’s not always at the stove. In this farmhouse kitchen in deepest Provence, it’s an aioli, garlic mayonnaise, served with poached salt cod and vegetables but equally delicious with simple…
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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…
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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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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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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…
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Here’s a great opportunity to celebrate the Mediterranean and the remarkable achievements of Paula Wolfert who is dealing with Alzheimer’s disease in a refreshingly direct and honest way and encouraging others to…
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My new book got off to a roaring good start this weekend when I made an outstanding duck ragu to go with pappardelle in a hearty, old-fashioned dish from Arezzo, our neighboring…
