Yearly Archive: 2008

a rousing success

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...

brisket drama

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...

cauliflower and Cinderella

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...