Back to the beginning I remember sitting on the backsteps under a punitive August sun, basting a rock, pretending it was a roast. When I go deeper into this memory I discover a backdrop of listlissness and loneliness, but the foreground was … [Read more...]
Tour D’Argent: a remembrance of things past at today’s prices
It will cost you a fortune, but it is not just a sensual gastronomic indulgence: it is an immersion in the most spiritual view Paris has to offer, and a step back in time to the Belle Epoque so convincing that you may think you’ve stepped through a … [Read more...]
Stalking wild asparagus
As kids in rural southern New Jersey, the five of us cousins made a ritual every Easter of plundering the wild asparagus that grew on the sandy verges of the unpaved road that ran to the house. The habitat offered generous pickings on the margins of … [Read more...]
Bees for cheese
I pondered deeply what to call this blog. I slept on it for days. One morning I woke myself laughing from a dream in which I'd hit upon the perfect name, one that captured its yearnings perfectly and was the essence of pastoral charm. "Bees for … [Read more...]
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