Paris, Berthillon,and Robin Weir's Ultimate Chocolate Ice Cream

Berthillon sign from ParisParis For me, Memorial Day weekend is best when spent with my friends, Kath and Trev up in Vermont on their farm. ...

Toots Shor, Chicken Hash with Hearts of Palm and a Caesar Salad "Cocktail"

Toots Shor, 1903-77 A few weeks ago I was noodling around the dial (ok, that’s an anachronism –– er,  channel surfing) –– and came upon the ...

Henri-Paul Pellaprat, a Great Cookbook you may not know, and Sole Colbert

Julia Child with teacher Max Bugnard, Cordon-Bleu School, Paris 1950 If you saw the film Julie and Julia , you might have the idea that ther...

The Lotos Club, Great Menus and Neapolitan Ice Cream

Twain Dinner, January 1908  I celebrated my first blog-versary at the end of 2010 with a 2-part recreation of a dinner that was given for Ma...