I have a good friend who commands a high post at Café Boulud. The other night he texted me after reading my latest tweet, which stated simply,  “Procrastinating.” He wrote asking what it was I was avoiding. In truth, it was writing this post. On Michael Ruhlman’s food blog he has a recent post about […]

Celest taught me to believe in box office ratings. She makes the argument that box office profits on opening weekends make a big impact on what sort of films get produced and released, and she spends her movie money accordingly. Obviously, the power of the purse persuades the powerful in Hollywood to make movies audiences […]

This is the December weekend for holiday parties…I’m attending two! And cooking for neither, for once. But you may well find yourself on the other end of that spectrum, so I’m offering an easy fix that feels flawless in the mouth, looks fancy on the plate, and morphs easily into crackers and dip once you’re too tanked to continue […]