Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.
New Orleans is a glorious mutation
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.