pancake sunday has a new friend. last night: a stack of freshly-warmed corn tortillas with spanish rice, black beans, shredded braised chic...

why do so few good cooks or chefs also write well? ideas in food embodies the philosophy of grounded, inductive, cyclic experimentation (m...

not so long ago, researchers (many of whom in the pay of the tobacco companies) still found it possible to claim that smoking and lung cance...

yesterday, i went to toscanini's to meet ben and tory. the board was covered in bizarre and marvellous flavours including sherry (manzan...

not really, but close enough. i did the biweekly grocery run to harvest and whole foods (today in a cold but not unpleasant rain) and bought...

our internet service has been cutting in and out for days, but today is blue-skied and bright so everything is alright: the windows in the d...

In the old days it stayed light until midnight and rain and snow came up from the ground rather than down from the sky. Women were easy. Eve...

i can't stand his screenplays or the long books (i think these are just a matter of time), but his autobiography and short essays on foo...

haroun and the sea of stories is one of the childrens' books that adults should read. when i first came across it in secondary school, ...

The heart of real buckwheats, after all, is fragile, gentle, slow-beating, and indisputably alive ... Made into a batter sparked to life wit...

i went over to love+butter tonight so we could discuss the fancy new segmented table they would like to have built. we've probably worke...

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land with a hu...

'Society' cannot defensibly be represented by any schema which depicts it as a whole made up of parts ... The complexities of socia...

ladies, gents, i don't know about you but when i spend the day lurking about cambridge street, stopping into the mayflower poultry co. (...

so, jason schneider, the boss-type from anderson ranch , has a bunch of pieces in a really sweet little show at the boston society of arts a...

last night, at the cal academy of sciences (awesome old museum with phenomenal new building where andy ng works occasionally dressed as a g...

the representation and the represented! this is a great series of lego abstracts of ny institutions , which shows how much information you c...

for reasons unknown, was invited to enjoy the pleasures of cathay pacific's business class lounge in chek lap kok, complete with noodle ...

[i started this in transit from singapore to cambridge, but the exigencies of life as a minimally-occupied student got in the way.] in any c...

of hong kong are, it turns out, justifiably famous. even if they're from a noodle bar at the airport. which is quite nice, and has sir n...

mnz : you should cultivate patrons. i have to go to reunion dinner, enjoy yours. me : if i was rich i would not need patrons now would i? tc...

turf city last night, for the parents' anniversary. what used to be singapore's horse-racing complex is now a mouldering concrete ed...

it's unclear how we got onto the subject of bread. at dinner last night at lagnaa in little india, when the subject of consubstantion an...

now this is real sweet . a 100m composited photograph by simon høgsberg. [thx phl ]

ice cream is deeply satisfying in the tropics. you cannot delay or otherwise draw out the eating, it melts so quickly after being removed fr...

among the small pleasures of living in the tropics are the early mornings, which happen between the moment when the sky begins imperceptibly...

peach garden at novena (桃苑) . mnz stood me dinner here, her gratitude being overwhelming for my contribution to various things including he...

monday morning was supposed to have been clear and moderately cold in boston, with no anticipated flight delays. so, of course, it snowed, c...

tomorrow, for just under two weeks, by way of chicago and tokyo. once again, robertson davies will be accompanying the flight--a writer of...

if tastiness results when you combine giant limas (soaked overnight and cooked until just tender) with chicken stock (made months ago from t...