Tag Archives: cooking I have been staring at my waffle iron since I got it, “Wanna Waffle?” it taunts me. Yes, I do, but I really need to get the whole waffle concept, and I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, I needed to take a bit of a scientific approach. I Googled, I searched, I read, I […]  Despite my best efforts I have no recipe for you today. I had a great idea for a wonderful new soup, sure to impress and delight you, and despite my best efforts, it was a bit of a bust. I used to go to a restaurant in Rhinebeck, New York called La Parmigiana which is […]  Now that January is here, almost everyone we know is starting their annual diet. I cannot even count the number of diets I’ve started, some a complete and total failure almost immediately, some more manageable. Even thin people seem to think, worry and even obsess about their weight. And so for many people new year= […]  For me pottery and cooking are similar disciplines. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before but for years I was a potter. I worked in a studio and spent hours a day sitting at a potters’ wheel making round things, and then changing them. I loved working on the wheel, I gave it up reluctantly. I […]  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. […] |
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