At a fish restaurant
There is a restaurant in Paris that I like very much. Truth be told, there are a dozen or more restaurants in Paris…
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Remembering a special Good Friday
Three years ago I was living in Fitou in France during a period of decompression and introspection. The preceding autumn had been just…
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Dining alone
During one summer in the 80s I had a week’s vacation from my job selling shoes at Marshall Field’s, and after considering places…
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My issue with soup and spaghetti
I never liked soup, and in my thirties I made it my mission to find out why. What was it about soup? What…
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Dinner at Chasen’s
On December 23, 1989 Mama and I had dinner at Chasen’s in Beverly Hills. It doesn’t exist anymore but was quite the Hollywood…
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Confessions
If you know me you might know that I own 200 Sinatra records. You might know that during high school I bought a…
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Food aversions
It is a natural condition among food-eating people that their preferences regarding food will vary. The spectrum of taste is infinite. In my…
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Chicken fried steak and food in general
Food really gets me going. I enjoy eating it, cooking it, planning ways I will cook it, shopping for things I need to…
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French madness
Last year I felt obliged to share at least one criticism of the French, considering how much I wax lyrical about them and…
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What I learned in culinary school
When I attended culinary school in the 1990s the Food Network was still somewhat new and star chefs were just beginning to proliferate…
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