Archive for October, 2006
(Note: This is a long-ago post from a previous blog I shared with my husband. Since it’s food-related, I decided it should live here.)
Recently, I read a blog posting on eGullet about cookbooks for kids, and how they’ve changed over the years, and for the first time in a long time I thought of my first cookbook.
(Note: This is a long-ago post from a previous blog I shared with my husband. Since it’s food-related, I decided it should live here.)
Okay–lest everyone think that all I do is eat at expensive restaurants and then carp about them, here’s what I’ve been doing in my own kitchen lately. And yes, I’ve been cooking up a storm…
(Note: This is a long-ago post from a previous blog I shared with my husband. Since it’s food-related, I decided it should live here.)
David and I went to Vinology recently and, in true literary form, I think the decor of the place was pretty much a metaphor for the whole experience: it held a tremendous amount of promise–it’s really quite nice inside, reminiscent of some of the more modish big-city restos I’ve been in, and you’d never know the space once housed an office supplies shop. The ambience is upscale, yet casual (the bar seems to dominate the whole place, even though there’s a partial wall between it and the main dining area), and the art is quite lovely and creative–excepting the big poster of New Zealand wine producing areas hanging askew, as posters are wont to do, at the back of the dining room. That poster, despite being thematically appropriate, just didn’t belong in that room, was just one tiny element that threw everything else off. That was pretty much the theme for the evening–much was done well, but there was always some little thing not quite right.