Monthly Archive: December 2008

I know one of the car­di­nal rules of enter­tain­ing is NEV­ER to make a dish for guests that you’ve nev­er made before. I have never…

The brisket. Remem­ber, the enor­mous slab of beef that I mar­i­nat­ed in the con­trolled sub­stance and all sorts of pep­per­corns and juniper and eye of…

As usu­al, I’m in the posi­tion of explain­ing how two such dis­parate things can pos­si­bly be occu­py­ing my mind at the same time, but that…