Food, Photography and Bons Mots
Comfort food. For me it’s macaroni salad. For as long as I can remember, when the going gets tough, I’ve turned to macaroni salad. Tax time. Macaroni salad. Doctor’s appointment. Macaroni salad. Starting a cooking blog. Macaroni salad. You get the picture. This is an adaptation…
Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most elusive–a good toaster, a potato salad with a bright flavor and a really good vinaigrette, for example. Although I cook a lot and put salads toward the top of the list of foods I enjoy,…
Some years ago I clipped a recipe from the LA Times for this bright black-eyed pea salad. The provenance of the recipe was listed as Senegal, from a book titled Yolele! Recipes from the Heart of Senegal by Pierre Thiam. This salad is beautiful on…
