I know I should have asked. Just exactly who is Leopoldo? After all, if you’re going to name a restaurant with a person’s name, one might reasonably jump to the far-fetched conclusion that there would be someone of that name involved with the restaurant. Or perhaps someone famous who inspired it. But there seems to… Read More Who is Leopoldo?
The weekend’s dinners were a bit on the quiet side. One night we just had six folk, and two of them were friends who jumped in to the rescue at the last minute; the second night was fully booked, but a trio backed out due to one of them having food poisoning from lunch, at… Read More Of Sweetbreads and Lamb
Continuing our series of northwestern Italian lunch classes (in which virtually none of you are enrolled, more’s the pity)… Lombardia. Milano. While this would seem to be “the” class to make a risotto, especially a classic Milanese risotto with saffron, kind of the signature of the whole area, this series follows on our basic Italian… Read More Lunch Class – Lombardia
Not my family, but, we’ve been doing a series of dinners for a group of local executives from Banco do Brasíl and one of the couples who has come to them had family in visiting for the weekend for their son’s high school graduation, and booked a private dinner. He’s headed off for my alma… Read More Family from Brasíl
Awhile back I attended a coffee seminar here in BA and, while a bit too heavy on the marketing angle of things, I enjoyed it, and also discovered interesting little tidbits, like there sort of really is a Juan Valdez, the face of Colombian coffee, although there have been three different people who have taken… Read More Victoria, Alan & Juan
Continuing this week with our five-session series of classes exploring dishes from the northwest of Italy, we touched on the cuisine of Val d’Aosta, a little known region measuring a mere 30 by 40 miles, basically in the mountains. The cuisine is hearty as befits the setting. Rye and buckwheat flour dominate the local starch… Read More From the Mountainside
“What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground- and to one another; it is either winged or it… Read More A Tale of Quail and Partridge
Just the monthly wrap-up of “unused” photos – a mixed bag, I didn’t carry my camera around much in New York, just the phone – not really sure why, though certainly the fact that other than about a day and a half it was drizzling the entire time had an influence. Boston I have tons… Read More May I End?