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OUR DAILY BREAD

Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Thank you Breads Bakery (in Union Square) for the free starter yeast you gave me yesterday, a critical ingredient for this nectarines and peaches sourdough pancake to work today. Thank you milk and flour for fermenting overnight. Thank you brown eggs, salt and sugar for completing...

Me Tartine, You Spain

Sunday, March 12, 2017
Sunday "Branch": Apple (cinnamon-brandy) Tart Me tossed the fruits in orange and grapefruit juice bath, with the powdered spices (in addition, a Saigon cardamom), the cognac, brown sugar and orange zest; a little salt and pepper. Refrigerate before baking. (That's actually a mascarpone cheese.) and...

"Past" Food

Thursday, March 9, 2017
"There are moments when pure chance can flick a switch and change the direction of your internal [life]..." 
                                                                     ~Lawrence Osborne, City of Spirits




Hydra, Greece


I arrived on the island October 31, 2016 on a writing sojourn. Around this corner, the ferry gently approached the port where mules and their handlers await your bags. Modernity ends at that exchange. You walk to your lodging (and the rest of your time), and the animals oblige quietly and help your way. That is the Gulf of Saronic, reaching the summit monastery on Mt. Eros, over a mountain vegetation of olives and sage. A terroir absent carbon pollution, the island itself supplies what the sea gives - there is a pristine organic exchange of nutrients at the ecotones (the coastline), not degradation. And the beneficiary is food. Only known by the Greeks is the secret of the one and only calamari of Hydra, prepared at no cost to the indigeniety of the squid; grilled or fried in olives and sage, your lemon is your lemon, and this dish is your juice of all. Cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, more olives and capers and cubes of feta cheese (Fall is its season - goat's milk at its ripest), you have your staple salad for the table oil. White wine and I kicked back. I just barely arrived in this present.

15 Degrees of Separation

Saturday, March 4, 2017
*New York, March 4, Outside Temperature Dropping to Fifteen* Granola-Yogurt-a Shot of Expresso Scone : I have whole milk yogurt but not heavy cream. Not enough sugar but enough granola cereal (sweet and tart with the berries). I always have butter and flour and baking powder and raw honey and whole...
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