Paper Palate

Okay, I admit it.  I love Top Chef!  Its one of my “must see” TV shows of each week.  I watch for the drama, the cheesy preening of the Cheftestants, the snarky guest judges, Padma’s outfits, and, of course, the food.  The show is in the midst of its fourth season and I can honestly say […]

 
One of my least favorite things to do is wait on the checkout line at the supermarket.  I especially hate it when I pop into the express lane with my basket containing three items and the person in front of me has just loaded a cart full of groceries onto the conveyor. What’s up with that?  What […]

Remember the old saying, “You can’t judge a book by its cover?”  It means that we shouldn’t make judgments based solely on appearances.  Usually that is good advice to follow, but when I saw Claudia Roden’s lovely cookbook, Arabesque: A Tale of Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon at Borders a few weeks ago, I didn’t even look […]

I was browsing though the cookbook section at Border’s a few weeks before Christmas when something caught my eye … It was the Tartine cookbook by husband and wife team, Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson.  I was supposed to be Christmas shopping, but somehow, I managed to stray over into that section.  It was like […]

I love Paris! I really, really do. I had been dying to go there for as long as I could remember. Last Summer, after almost twenty years of begging, whining and cajoling, I finally talked my husband into making the trip. I mean, it’s not as if we never traveled. We’ve been cruising in the […]