“Dear Signor Polpettone, please step forward. Do not be shy. I want to introduce you to my readers.” This is the opening sentence of the recipe for meatloaf (recipe #315)
Onions are the ur-vegetable, mentioned in the Bible and the Quran. The Egyptians revered them, seeing eternal life in their concentric rings. Jains won’t eat them, believing that, along with
This time of indefinite imposed isolation is an out-of-body, out-of-time, out-of-reality experience. We have all the time in the world. Only a few weeks ago that would have seemed like
There are two meals that can be made with anything or nothing at all – and I made them right away. The global flu pandemic has blown away many of
“I’m a dump-and-stir cook.” That is my mother’s deceptively self-deprecating description of her style. Self-deprecating because she is not-so-secretly proud of her dump-and-stir-ness, implying as it does a down-Maine disrespect