Paper Palate

“The term chocholism is misleading. I therefore propose two new terms: chocophilia, for those whose love is essentially hedonistic, and chocomania, for those who feel their consumption has taken on the character of a necessity.”
- Doctor Chantal Favre-Bismuth

Indulgence: One Man’s Selfless Search for the Best Chocolate in the World sounds like a dream […]

Meat-filled breads are always a surprising pleasure. While they can be a happy filler to a meal at breakfast or dinner, they make a not-so-guilty snack when one is craving carbs; forming more of a mini-sandwich than mere bread.
My grandmother makes a succulent Latvian variety known as Piedogs. Traditionally filled with chopped ham […]

There are many reasons to read Shoba Narayan’s memoir, Monsoon Diary; one could read it for the grace of her liquid prose which carries the reader from page to page on a cloud of sensual remembrance. Or, one could read it for her transcriptions of her family’s South Indian vegetarian recipes, classics one and […]

A few years ago, I had an ideal roommate: she was an amazing baker while I was the meat and potatoes of the operation. Together we created some tantalizing meals that impressed all around us. We were an unstoppable duo, especially in the kitchen. She moved out, we moved on, and now […]