There are some cookbooks that you know, after just one use, that are going to be a keepers….
Sunday roast and chocolate cake
Whenever a friend who we know is a pretty darned good cook calls us and invites us over…
Fave recipes: Lentils a la Balthazar
I remember when Keith McNally opened Balthazar. It was the Spring of 1997. And even though I was…
Gunther’s: grown-up food in a grown-up space
New restaurants open all the time in a city as busy and buzzing as Singapore. Which means some…
Blanquette de veau à l’ancienne
There are some dishes that are made to impress — miniature towers of painstakingly cooked and elaborately presented…
Eating Paris: a 6 day itinerary
Paris is still one of my favourite cities in the world and a place I hope to return…
Per Se, New York City
I’m skipping our trip to Los Angeles and Orange Country briefly in order to write about one of…
Green tea madeleines
When I was younger, I had the pleasure of spending two summers working in Paris. During that first…
Two wonderful French outposts in HK
hazlenut tropizienne with salted caramel and vanilla ice cream from Caprice Two of the restaurants we were most…