Charcutepalooza

Splendid Table

August 11, 2012

Just a quick post to let you know you can find me on The Splendid Table this weekend. Lovely Lynne Rosetto Kasper interviewed me and made me feel so comfortable. Here’s the link. The interview with me starts around minute 27, but don’t miss Lynne’s reminiscences of Julia Child, David Leite on Nutella and Ted [...]

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doing the charleston

May 17, 2012
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Dennis and I ran away to Charleston last week. The Holy City. The Ghost City. We thought it was a delicious city. It was a great getaway. Three days was hardly time enough. Frankly, I could have stayed a month. Everything about Charleston is wonderful. The architecture. The breezy sea salty smell at the park [...]

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what to do with lamb belly

May 3, 2012
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When Craig Rogers, the Pied Piper shepherd of Border Springs, sent me four good sized lamb bellies, I was intrigued. Craig’s exceptional lamb is familiar to diners all along the Eastern seaboard. Just check out the offerings at Bourbon Steak DC, Volt, or Husk. It’s good enough to be named right there on the menu. [...]

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tales of traveling

March 20, 2012
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It’s been a whirlwind two weeks of travel. I may be physically back in Washington, DC. I may be making dinners and sitting at my desk, wandering around my yard, all full of Spring blooms, but in my heart, I am still in Paris. I love that city. We had a great visit. Ate oysters [...]

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hello spring.

March 5, 2012
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Without even a moment of Winter, it seems, Spring has arrived. It’s hard to leave my garden in Spring, when every day brings another surprise. Today a tulip – an early Gregii – popped up. And others will appear while I’m away, and may even fade before I return. So much could change. It is [...]

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janis tester’s sourdough starter.

March 2, 2012
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Here’s a picture of a very vigorous wild yeast product. It’s sourdough starter. Starter with a provenance. History. A past. This starter came to me via the underground railroad of food folks all the way from Janis Tester in Massachusetts. Janis was a Charcutepalooza semi-finalist, and it was during that meaty year we became Twitter [...]

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slow cooker challenge. i feel good about lamb neck.

January 18, 2012
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I’ve had an on again off again relationship with my slow cooker. I purchased it at a small neighborhood hardware store in Pittsburgh, sometime during my senior year in college (when the dinosaurs walked the earth.) For years, it was my go to appliance, making soups and chilis while I toiled at an office. When [...]

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And the winner is….

January 7, 2012
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The Year of Meat has come to a close. We have a winner, and his name is Peter Barrett. Peter writes the visually stunning and always wry and clever A Cook Blog. From the very beginning, everyone noticed his spectacular, extravagent and enviable way of answering the challenges. I’d Like to Be Alone with the [...]

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savory tarts for this, or any, time of year

December 30, 2011
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We are coming to the end of party season. The time of year when we invite friends and neighbors into our homes, cook like crazy, add a little more butter, cream, bacon to our meals. I love this time of year for all the excuses there are to celebrate and I’m resolving as of today [...]

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