Category Archives: eating well Senate Bean Soup, is a classic navy bean soup, and has been served in the Senate restaurant since 1903. Several weeks ago I put out a call for your favorite soups and the winner (by a wide margin) was potato soup, in second place was chicken, a few votes for gazpacho, and finally bean, including specifically […]  Just the other day I was reminiscing with a friend about the department store restaurants that were ubiquitous in our youth. Almost every department store had at least one restaurant and some had a lunch counter as well. These were sit-down restaurants with real china, cloth napkins, and as a kid I always felt very […]  The top of my Settlement Cookbook is imprinted with the phrase “The way to a man’s heart…” The full quote is ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ and is an old English proverb. I’m not sure how it happened, but all evidence to the contrary I stubbornly cling to this notion. […]  There are just some food that is fun to make, fun because it’s easy to make, requires little to no measuring, and the outcome, the most important part is fun food. Recently I made ricotta cheese for the first time, and it was so good, so easy, and so much fun I’ve made it again, […]  I wish you a happy Thanksgiving, and offer some random Thanksgiving thoughts. This week the New York Times ran a great piece on Thanksgiving food in all 50 states. There are enough recipes in this one article to get you through the coming winter, though there are many I think I’ll skip, either due to […] |
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