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Fried Bunny Ears at elBulli; Food for Thought

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This past Wednesday, the Washington Post's Food Section ran a thoughtful piece by the paper's chief art critic, Blake Gopnik, who sought to answer whether some of the avant-garde food being created today at places such as...

The Book That Keeps on Cooking

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Now that I've aired my dirty little secret -- that I have never cooked a recipe from "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" -- let me go on record to say that I am ecstatic that Julia Child's seminal book is, for the first time...

Top Chauv: Feeling the Heat

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Here in the nation's Capital, a minor brouhaha is brewing over a recent episode of "Top Chef," in which contestant Mike Isabella, chef at Jose Andres' popular D.C. Mediterranean restaurant Zaytinya, made a disparaging remark about a female co-contestant.
I don't watch "Top Chef" (or any reality TV), so...

‘The Silver Palate:’ A Tribute to Sheila Lukins

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If Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" taught Americans how to cook, then surely it was "The Silver Palate Cookbook," first published in 1982, that taught us how to cook American -- or, more accurately, new American. The cookbook by Sheila Lukins...

School Lunch: It’s Not Rocket Science

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