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A Cold Winter’s Day Luncheon Menu Reminiscent of Sunny Climes ~ beginning with Spicy Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Spread (Muhammarah)
Imagine a place where wintertime’s beauty and bite are keen. Imagine a high-ceilinged dining room with guests already seated around …
Rack of Lamb Provence Style (Carré d’agneau a la Provençale) with Roasted Tomatoes (Tomates rôties) and Golden-Roasted Potatoes (Pommes de terre rôties dorées fondantes)
The First Lessons in Bach are simple pieces. Piano players may remember how delightful it was to play one of …
Salad of Romaine, Apples and Cucumber with Walnut Bread Croutons and Toasted Walnut Vinaigrette
In her fine little article about “Walnuts”, the English food writer Jane Grigson coined a memorable phrase to describe how …
Jane Grigson’s Walnut Bread from Southern Burgundy
On a counter, leaning upright against a wall in the diplomatickitchen, is an aged tray, used daily for serving morning …
Rock Lobster Tails (Queues de langoustines) with Sauce Muscat Beaumes de Venise
‘The Muscat grape has been grown for a long time in Beaumes and its wine is remarkable.’ (Pliny the Elder, …
Chocolate Snowballs
Agnes Repplier, an astute observer of life and writer of elegant essays, once observed that whereas the dark and unpleasant …
New Year’s Celebration for the Romantic, the Introvert, the Homebody ~ a Dinner for 2, 4, or 6 opening with Caviar and June Platt’s Marinated Mushrooms
Many enjoy their New Year’s celebration enlivened with a goodly crowd of partiers, music at high volume and dance, to …
A Loaf of Bread and Thou ~ The third loaf: Pumpkin Challah and ‘Pistazienaufstrich’ ~ a Pistachio and Lemon Spread
Let the thoughts of Scrooge’s nephew, conveyed to his uncle, on the subject of Christmas, provide a prelude to this …
A Loaf of Bread and Thou ~ The second loaf: Chocolate Bread and Vanilla Hazelnut Spread
The King said, “Bother!” And then he said, “Oh dear me!” “The King sobbed, “Oh, dear me!” And went back …
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