Buttered Spaghetti With Green Veggies

May 6, 2016

The world champion consumers of butter are the French, who enjoy a whopping 8.3 kg of butter per capita each …

Culinary Alchemy at Per Se

May 4, 2016

For years I have longed to eat at Per Se, Thomas Keller’s shrine to New American/French cuisine in the Time …

April 29, 2016

I was introduced to this wine at Per Se in New York City (more on that experience is coming later). Of …

April 27, 2016

Last time we looked at Mr. Rochester in the drawing room; today we meet Rochester in the dining room. Soon we …

April 25, 2016

The Cleveland Indians mascot “Chief Wahoo” has come in for a good deal of criticism over the years. Wahoo is …

April 22, 2016

I have had this photograph by Clayton Cubitt on my desktop for months now. Every so often I expand the …

April 21, 2016

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë. I could not let the date pass without notice, and …

April 20, 2016

A Broadway show –wild success, abject failure, or anything in between– is something to celebrate. It’s an outpouring of the human drive …

April 18, 2016

The expression “I know it when I see it” was famously used by US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in …