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Archive for December, 2008

It’s been a while.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

College applications. Lots of them. But they’re due by 11:59 pm tonight (December 31) so I’ll be back in food writing mode shortly. I’ve got some writing to do about Crabby Jack’s and Martinique. Soon. But not now.

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P1 and other wonders

Posted in New Orleans, art, musings on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve realized something recently. 99% of the time, when we decide to allot more attention, time, and effort to something, we burn out, get fed up, and become utterly exasperated with that which previously commanded our extra attention. It can happen with everything from schoolwork to relationships. Things just get old. But here I am, [...]

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Iberico bellota

Posted in New Orleans, St. James Cheese Company, gumbo, lunch, meat, sandwiches on December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

So now I’m officially done with my last set of high school midterms and I’ve got an entire two weeks ahead of me to think about food. I’m hoping to visit Lilette, Herbsaint, Cochon, and Tony Angelo’s over the break. Of course, the first is a favorite and the others are places I tragically have [...]

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Feast your eyes, lambs

Posted in Thomas Keller, chocolate, dinner, musings on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

…because unless you’re ridiculously fortunate, your eyes will be the only things feasting on this marvelous array of foods from French Laundry in the Napa Valley. My family used to vacation in Sorrento, Maine, and we’d always stop at this restaurant on the water where one could get the freshest of fresh Maine lobster for [...]

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M.F.K. Fisher, a food writer in a league of her own.

Posted in musings on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It seems that this woman is appearing far too serendipitously in snippets of my conversation these days: with my poetry teacher; with my women’s history teacher; over a bowl of buttered spaghetti, a simple dish that Fisher champions, with my mom; with my classmates, who are curious as to why I am lugging around this [...]

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