A Most Elegant Burger

A couple weeks ago I had one of those better-than-average work days, which had me hanging out with other food writers at Tom Douglas' cool cooking school Hot Stove Society. Our host was the Washington Beef Commission, and our task to get some hands-on time with various preparation techniques for [...]

2020-02-05T18:07:09+00:00May 18th, 2017|Cookbooks, Cooking at Home, Interesting Ingredients|

Julia Child: Bon Anniversaire Madame!!

Back in early November of 1990, I was into my second year in France for an extended stay. Earlier, in college, I'd had a couple trips to France as part of my studies--once for a month, the following year for a semester at University of Dijon. But this was my [...]

2023-08-17T00:48:21+00:00August 7th, 2012|Memories|

Les Hamburgers

I hope you read that title with an appropriately thick French accent, as I'd intended. Lay am-behr-gehr. It makes a difference. Because this isn't about the all-American hamburger we all know and love, instead a Gallic take on our Yankee icon. It really had never crossed my radar in all the [...]

2020-03-03T22:46:48+00:00October 13th, 2009|Cookbooks, Cooking at Home|

My Dinner with Julia

Julia Child's birthday was on August 15, the towering mentor to generations of food lovers in this country would have been 97 years old. Usually it's an annual event that garners plenty of its own attention, with media tributes and themed dinners in countless homes across America. But this year was [...]

2021-05-12T15:29:35+00:00August 21st, 2009|Delicious Events|

A Preview of the Julia Movie

Oh, you know. The Julia Child movie that's been in the works for a while now. The one starring Meryl Streep as Julia? Based on that Julie & Julia blog/book? I'm not an ET watcher, but a friend just passed along this link to a preview from the show. On that [...]

2009-04-29T13:12:01+00:00April 29th, 2009|Uncategorized|

Julia Child, American Spy

That Julia, she was quite a woman. In many ways that we already knew: she was a trailblazer, a mentor and teacher, a proponent of eating well, a liver of life and entertainer to boot. And, as both my morning papers spelled out today, she had a hidden layer just being discovered: [...]

2008-08-14T08:50:59+00:00August 14th, 2008|Uncategorized|
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