Archive for: June 2008

Happy Anniversary, Baby

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It slipped by without me noticing even, like some old married couple. I had to go back through my Flickr account to check the date on the photos to make sure. But it’s true. It’s been more than a year that I’ve been in Seattle. Last spring I got in… Read More

Asparagus with Preserved Meyer Lemon

I never eat asparagus without feeling profoundly grateful. It was a sunny morning in late May when I left the small eastern Washington town where I had gone to college for the last time. I had graduated just days earlier, walking across the stage in my cap and gown in… Read More

To Mise or Not to Mise, That is the Question

Mise en place: a French phrase defined…as “everything in place”… It is used in U.S. kitchens to refer to the ingredients, such as cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components that a cook requires for the menu items that they expect to prepare… Read More

Life, Death, and Quinoa

My downstairs neighbor in San Francisco died this spring. Now, before you start saying those things that we all say because we really never know what to say when it comes to death, I should tell you that I didn’t really know this neighbor. He moved in last summer, after… Read More