21 Club Style Turkey Hash

Pictures from 21 Club websit e The 21 Club in NYC was opened in 1929 by cousins Jack Kreindler and Charlie Berns. Although raided many ti...

The Aviatrix, Creme de Violette!

Palerme by Baccarat I saw the drink “The Aviation” in a Michael Ruhlman blog awhile back. Although I don’t countenance gin (my mother let...

Thanks on Thanksgiving, NYT!

I would like to offer thanks, this Thanksgiving, to the “Gray Lady”, the venerable 150 year old New York Times , for all the wonderful i...

Hippocras

Baccarat Harcourt glass Have you read Susan Orlean's " The Orchid Thief " ? How she made me love those orchid hunter's add...

Pumpion Pye in the 17th Century

I can’t be the only person who is haunted by a recipe. I saw this little beauty a few years ago. It was in a November 27, 1895 NYT...

English Muffins, old style!

 The English muffin had humble beginnings. Muffins were originally only made for the  servant class from leftover bread dough scraps and mas...