Snooping Around
While snooping around a friend’s kitchen, I opened a drawer and found this. She swears it wasn’t directed at me.
While snooping around a friend’s kitchen, I opened a drawer and found this. She swears it wasn’t directed at me.
…I-T-A, that’s BRITA™! It lurks in my kitchen, waiting…and waiting. It thirsts for the precious fluid of life. And it will stop at nothing to get it. It is voracious. It is unstoppable. And it doesn’t care who gets in its way. I can’t leave it alone. I hydrate. The water level drops, it needs to be filled. It craves it. Seeking completion. It hungers…
Everyone over here is getting a chuckle over the Oprah vs. Hermès flap. There seems be a lot of back-and-forth about what happened and who-said-what when Oprah wasn’t allowed into Hermès to buy a watch for her pal Tina Turner (I had the same problem with her as well. Tina is so particular about which brand of watch she’ll wear.) The kinds folks at Hermès…
10 Reasons The Amateur Gourmet Should Come to Paris… 1. They have no idea who Bobby Flay is. 2. The have no idea who Rachel Ray is. 3. They know who Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are, but don’t care. 4. Scientology is illegal. 5. Since they wouldn’t let Oprah into Hermès, there’s an unclaimed Birkin bag for Adam’s mom. 6. They know who Oprah…
Ha! I fooled you. This time, this really is a ‘no-recipe’ (unlike my No-Recipe Cherry Jam) since unless you have your own bushes and pick them youself, you’re not likely to have enough red currants to make jam. So, no-recipe. Last weekend out in the countryside lots of red currants were picked… No make that lots of baskets of red currants!… Hours were spent stirring…
The hottest table right now in Paris is not at some snooty Michelin 3-star restaurant. It’s
Cooking On Rue Tatin with Susan Loomis and David Lebovitz For this very special week, I’ll be joining cookbook author Susan Loomis for a week of cooking and baking at her gorgeous and famous home on Rue Tatin (yes, she lives on Rue Tatin!) in the village of Louviers. Susan has written extensively about her life in Normandy and her latest book, Cooking At Home…
Join me on my Spring 2026 book tour for my latest book, The Great Book of Chocolate