This week’s recipe from Portland-based photographer Leela Cyd has a picture-perfect backstory. Leela re-created the recipe after tasting something similar one cold winter day in a warm candlelit wine and cheese bar. As I type with numb fingertips, this makes me want to find an equally inspiring place to come up with a few recipes…
Photos by Max Tielman It may have taken until the end of January, but winter has finally hit NYC. The Bellocq tea shop is just around the corner from the Design*Sponge office in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but it was cold enough on Wednesday that Max and I were completely bundled up (there may have been some…
This week’s recipe for French Toast and Sweet and Spicy Bacon by photographer Stacy Newgent reminded me how much I love French toast (and bacon!). I’ve mentioned before my culinary rituals when I visit the United States, and together with hamburger sampling, great breakfasts rank at the top of my list. My favorite French toast…
Photos by Maxwell Tielman. Juice glasses from West Elm. A couple months ago, I could no longer stand the guilt I felt when I looked at my expensive juicer, so I decided to commit to juicing every morning. It was actually easier than I thought. After two full months of juice for breakfast, I can say that…
This week is the third installment of a submission by photographer Pauline Boldt. In December, Pauline shared a series of recipes with me that would have been great for a full meal, but I preferred to post them individually to avoid losing any single element. I think the three (Cornmeal Cake with Candied Lemons and…
Photography by Maxwell Tielman One of my favorite moments from last summer was spending a laugh-filled evening at Portland’s Hollywood Theater. I was able to catch one of their last B Movie Bingo nights before heading back to Brooklyn and can’t remember the last time I had so much fun watching a cheesy movie. Being…
This week’s recipe by pizza enthusiast Elana Iaciofano rekindled my love for making pizza at home. Even though I made Elana’s Roasted Chestnut and Pyrénées Brebis Pizza with the wrong cheeses, I used a new flour that was amazing and that I felt totally compensated for my cheese error. (I’m a total convert now and will…
Photographer Pauline Boldt, whose cornmeal cake we featured late last year, has a most enviable life. She jet sets around the world photographing farms, restaurants, vineyards, chefs and more. In this way, she has the perfect opportunity to sample many different types of fabulous food. It seems that each experience one-ups the previous, so there’s…
We saved the best for last this year as we sign off until 2013. I have a fond memory from my childhood of bourbon-soaked treats at Christmastime: I loved getting into the round tin of bourbon balls between layers of wax paper. I wasn’t nearly as fond of fruit cake, though my little brother coveted the loaf…
This week, to send you off into the holidays, we have our first bourbon recipe by photographer Jen Altman for her own version of Hot Buttered Bourbon. There’s not much more I can add to that! It’s such an easy recipe that there’s no reason not to make some for your friends when they stop by…
This week, we’re super lucky to have a recipe for Fried Apple Pies with Salted Caramel Glaze by Emily and Elizabeth at the Nothing-in-the-House Baking Company. The recipe appears in their first book, Pie: A Hand Drawn Almanac, just out now, but as a treat, we have new illustrations. The recipe appears typed and hand…
I met photographer and creative director Pauline Boldt virtually after we worked on the same photography project here in Rome. We didn’t meet during the project; maybe we saw each other and never knew who the other was. When I finished my part, I went to the Slow Food Salone del Gusto in Piedmont, and Pauline…
This week’s recipe is from Matt and Renato at Baked. I learned about Baked when Grace visited Matt and Renato in their bakery a few years ago and produced this video. I was curious about their recipes and got their beautiful book, made a chocolate cake from it for my office and gained superstar status….
This week, I think we might have a first on the column: Persimmons! And maybe also pomegranate. Photographer and blogger Erin Gleeson of The Forest Feast is the palate behind this intriguing combination of flavors and beautiful autumnal colors. Her Persimmon Squash Salad garnished with hazelnuts, pomegranate, radicchio and parmesan is a mouthful to say,…
If there were a way to put the title of this week’s recipe in flashing neon capital letters, I would have. I am always excited about the recipes we feature on the column, but every so often, I am so excited that I just want to run around knocking on everybody’s door to say, “Don’t…
For the next five days, my husband and I are in Istanbul exploring new food and a new culture. I love looking for recipes from the locales I’ve visited so that I can make a few dishes at home whenever I’m missing those places. I also like finding recipes of the places I’d like to…
As I was scrolling through the Behind the Bar column last week, I noticed a citrus theme. I admit that my favorite cocktails from the column have had citrus as a primary component. So this week, I thought it would be nice to do a round up of the citrus cocktails we’ve covered. They also…
This autumn has been a season of exciting cookbook releases: Nigel Slater, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, Yvette van Boven, Katie Quinn Davies, Kevin Gillespie and this week’s recipe contributor, Aran Goyoaga, are but a few of the authors with books that I’ve been waiting for since last year! Aran is one of the In the Kitchen…
I came across Rohan Anderson’s blog, Whole Larder Love one morning via Lucy’s Design Files. As I read through pages of the blog, I was happier and happier to have been introduced to it. I like to think of Rohan as a mix between Aidan (Sex and the City Season 4 Episode 9: Sex and…
I was shopping for interesting-looking food the other day and came across a package of cookies. They looked like ladyfingers, or savoiardi in Italian, but were a bit harder. It reminded me that I haven’t made a tiramisù in a million years, and surprisingly, we have never featured one on this column. I thought I’d…
