Today’s confession: I have a major girl crush on Melissa Clark. The flame-haired culinista writes the “A Good Appetite” column in the New York Times‘ Dining section on Wednesday, but I’m such a groupie, I check out her column on my iPad days before the recipes appear in the Times. I skip right over Mark Bittman […]
The good news is I got another round of precious native strawberries in my CSA basket this week. The bad news? There was a berry glut in my refrigerator! No matter where I’ve shopped over the past two weeks – Whole Foods (needed, um, vitamins), Stop ‘n’ Shop (gas points) or Lees Market (Westport weekend) […]
We will celebrate Father’s Day and Dad‘s 76th birthday tomorrow, a rare feat of the calendar, so I felt the need to cook up a small tribute to my father, the consummate Foodsmith. After nearly 52 years with John Philip Raposa, his obsession with food, especially the baking business, has rubbed off on me. And, […]
We have had plenty of signs that summer is upon us, but for me, the first week of my Community Shared Agriculture program at R & C Farms in Scituate confirms it — despite the rainy week we’ve had! I picked up our full CSA share today, a crate stocked with three kinds of […]
How much do I love lemons? If I have a choice of a sweet made with chocolate or lemon, the fruit wins every single time. If I’m cooking and I think the dish needs “a little something,” it’s usually lemon or lemon peel. And of all the people on TV, “30 Rock” funnygal Liz Lemon […]
There are some pizza joints that demand return visits. We vow a return to the place by the bus station in Rome, but closer to home, there’s Leo’s Casa Calamari in Brooklyn. The Casa never disappoints — except that one time in 2011 that it was closed after a fire broke out in the ventilation […]
I’ve been stricken by a bad case of TV nostalgia lately. But just when I thought I had kicked it, actress Valerie Harper, who I adored worshipped as Rhoda Morgenstern in the 1970s’ sitcom, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” announced this week she has terminal brain cancer and has three months to live. Now, I don’t […]