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Montmartre
Last date I was here: Fall 2007 Restaurant: Montmartre Location: Eastern Market Total Rating: 4.3 Food: 5, Price: 3, Service: 3, Ambience: 4, Accessibility: 5 Summary: A former post office in Eastern Market is the unlikely home of the city's best French bistro, a warm, happily chaotic... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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Delicious: Carol cooks Thomas Keller, makes us feel inadequate
Sometimes, someone will take on a project of such difficulty and such magnitude, attempt such great heights and risk such great failure that you think they must be crazy, out of their minds, a little loopy and totally off their rocker. But you also have to respect their courage, their recklessness, the far-sweeping reach of their dreams and their great and admirable determination in pursuing them. And then, you applaud when they achieve those dreams, believe in a better world where everyone can be a winner, and hope they can invite you over for dinner. Read More »
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Classic Cookbooks: Mastering the Art of French Cooking
The fact that Mastering the Art of French Cooking—a great, eternal gift to American home cooks—got published at all is a miracle, because nothing like it had ever existed before. Julia Child’s collaboration with her Paris cooking-school partners, Simone (Simca) Beck and Louisette Bertholle, was as complicated as marriage, and epic battles ensued as they shaped the book into one conveying not just that cooking is an art, but that learning to cook is a lifelong process that happens to be enormous fun. Read More »
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Find the Food that Feeds Your Soul
I've been thinking a lot about food and exercise lately because I have, after months of blowing it off, finally begun to exercise again in an effort to lose my excess weight. I purchased a Bodybugg, and am sure I'll be writing about it in months to come because I wish everyone with a weight... Read More »
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Decor Tips From the Hopelessly Chic
The French have a way about them, don't they? An irritating ability to always look chic and put together without looking like they tried at all. I've found over the years that this chic-ness applies to their homes as well. The top 5 tips for achieving French understated... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (1) | Blog
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Eating On the Edge #29: What Frog means to France
On NPR the other day, Rachel Martin asked me about recent alarm that France might be giving up on frogs legs, what with ecological and animal cruelty concerns. True, pesticides are taking a toll on both the green and red amphibians whose plump thighs are the stuff of those beloved cuisses de... Read More »
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Hunting down a great wedding gift: vintage cookbooks
I have a couple of weddings to go to this summer, and I've been racking my brain for interesting, personal, original gift ideas. One of the items I'm seriously considering (for a friend who likes to cook) is a stack of vintage cookbooks. I just love the idea of him diving into intricate, traditional recipes from a seriously authentic regional cuisine. I also think, depending on the style of your kitchen, some of these would look incredible displayed. Read More »
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