AND GOING Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. - Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days I am surrounded by suitcases many open and half filled, the sun streaming in the windows of this apartment that we will leave in just two days. Cartons are stacked high to the ceiling, rolls of ...
New Life, New Hotel, New Blog!
Well, friends, I think we just bought a hotel. You have to make it happen. - Denis Diderot When they say that life is an adventure, I believe that they must have meant this. My head is spinning and I keep pinching myself. The story will be a while in the telling, the adventure unfolding one day at a ...
An Object of Desire
Chairs Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. - Fran Lebowitz Winter never does settle in, in this part of the world. Not really. A midnight flurry, maybe, quite possibly, hidden from prying eyes. Wake to white in the morning and ...
A Frenchman’s Rice Pudding
Riz au Lait If you carry your childhood with you, you never grow older. - Tom Stoppard Some people think of childhoods long past, cozy corners in some nursery or propped up at a kitchen table in some small town far away with a nanny or grandma or mom hovering not very far away. Some people think of grade ...
Tender Chestnut Bundlet Fondants with Chocolate Ganache
I first made this recipe four years ago during a three-week period in which I was lucky enough to host a houseful of twenty-somethings, my son and his three friends and work partners. That meant that I was able to bake and bake to my heart’s content, for I had young men hungry for my ...