Apple-Celery Sorbet I was trying to decide on a sorbet flavor for an upcoming dinner party, and I ran across this Apple-Celery combination from Michael…
Caramelized raisin sauce Michael Laiskonis is the executive pastry chef at Le Bernardin. He also manages to write two blogs in his "spare" time, which…
The community of food bloggers is quite amazing. We’ve got professionals taking a break from their speed racks, newbies making their first stir-fry, vegans and…
Madeleine cookies – or really, teacakes My goal for this post is to write about madeleines without mentioning Proust (again). Mini-me is obsessed with those…
Naomi, my buddy over at GastroGnome, just published a piece about vegetarians, more or less in response to Taylor Clark’s Slate article on the subject.…
Do you ever read an article and have this weird feeling like the author is channeling you? Or rather channeling a version of you that…
Tuesday night we had a gathering of a bunch of Seattle food bloggers at the relatively new Quinn’s Pub on Capitol Hill. I’d never met…
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Fanny’s Foodbeam blog lately, and when I needed a straightforward chocolate dessert for dinner with Mini-me’s cousins tonight, I thought I’d…
There are three unrelated things I want to talk about today. My challenge as an utterly unprofessional writer: segue between them so that you as…