Christine | August 19, 2010
Way back when I threw a South American themed birthday party for a dear friend of mine in her brownstone basement apartment in Boston’s South End. She loved flank steak and I’d decided to fit that cut of beef into the theme with the addition of the Argentinean-inspired Chimichurri Sauce I’d seen in a then [...]
Christine | July 28, 2010
Delia has a relatively new advertising gig with Waitrose, Britain’s most upscale grocery store chain.
Under the multi-media scheme, she and fellow British celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, creator of the three-Michelin starred Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, encourage people to cook at home mainly through TV ads, Internet streaming videos, and printed recipe cards that instruct [...]
Christine | July 24, 2010
One of the major drawbacks to finishing culinary school is a sharp drop in the number of dinner party invitations one receives. Chef Hunt, the culinary dean in Le Cordon Bleu in Pittsburgh, warned us about this phenomenon, advising us not to take it personally. Prowess in the kitchen is intimidating.
But my English friends, Danny [...]
Christine | July 20, 2010
My husband is all about loyalty. He truly believes (even sometimes as late as the last week in September) that the Red Sox will still be playing in October. He still avoids Florida because of the 2000 election results. And he’s not convinced the traditional English custard recipe I pulled from the voluminous Delia’s Complete [...]
Christine | July 19, 2010
Would you think I was a freak if I copped to, upon landing in any new place, making a beeline for the nearest grocery store? Well, I do. I find it fascinating to see what people take for granted as staples and what they deem luxuries, distinctions that are quite evident to me based on [...]
Christine | February 11, 2010
The only time I got out of my pajamas yesterday was to take a shower and change into a clean pair. So it’s only fitting that I had breakfast food for dinner. But it was a very interesting twist on breakfast food: Poached eggs on top of bacon studded sweet and white potato hash.
The charm [...]
