Food, Photography and Bon Mots
It started with a food picture as so many of my culinary adventures begin. It was a New York Times Food piece on Los Angeles’ Konbi Restaurant’s Egg Salad Sandwich–an elegant riff on the 7-Eleven Egg Salad Sando sensation in Japan. But…it was hard.…
I’m not a sports person. Football. Yawn. Baseball. Yawn. And on and on. Oh sure, when I was in high school I had a brief flirtation with baseball and the Dodgers. Mostly, though, my baseball interest was because I thought I was in love with…
We all have our unicorns–those elusive “finds” that we search for and can’t quite grasp. This is one of mine. Chickpea Sandwich Filling. (I know. I know. My search is a modest one. But still….) I’ve always known it could be done. I’ve…
Who doesn’t need a good condiment now and then? That is particularly true now. Those creative dishes we are all making with pantry staples can get a wee bit boring. This over-the-top lime-flavored cucumber dish rocks. If you are a lime juice devotee…
Is there a support group for compulsive cookbook buyers? Hundreds of cookbooks share my office bookshelves with my collection of history and political science books from my thirty-two year teaching career and my growing collection of photography books. My history books are sacred possessions but I’m…
