4 Questions 4 Nigella Lawson

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I’ve said it before: the single best day of my freelance writing life was the one I spent shopping and cooking with Nigella Lawson. When I started this blog — exactly one year ago today — my friend Randall asked: “Is it going to be “All Nigella, All the Time?”
“No, I answered, “but if my [...]

Tags: Mario Batali, Nigella Lawson

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Demolishing My Low-Carb Vows

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Oh, I am loving this book from the chef/owner of San Francisco’s Citizen Cake. Gorgeously photographed, sassily written and stuffed with exciting recipes, “Demolition Desserts” is one helluva book. Even the back cover blurbs are impressive: Mario Batali calls it “crazy, smart and beautiful,” Pierre Herme claims to want to try [...]

Tags: Citizen Cake, Citizne Cupcake, Dorie Greenspan, Elizabeth Faulkner, Mario Batali, Pierre Herme

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Littleneck Clams Gone to Glory

Monday, July 30th, 2007

A more devoted blogger would have taken a picture of a bowl heaped with tonight’s pasta with clams, but I’m annoyingly obsessive about eating pasta while it’s piping hot, so I didn’t even look for the camera until the clams were a delicious memory.
J. is reading Bill Buford’s “Heat” and decided [...]

Tags: Babbo, Bill Buford, Mario Batali

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