I can't describe the excitement I felt when I encountered my first true smørrebrød. I was a student in Denmark, at the University of Copenhagen on a semester abroad scholarship. It was the first time I'd travelled out of my own country as a … [Read more...]
I used to cook in a piggery
I used to cook in a piggery. That’s what I called it, though the students who lived there didn’t know this. I cooked two meals a day for 40 undergraduates of a well-known California university who lived in a falling-down house, back in the days … [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...]
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