Petit Riz

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revuelto de arroz

       Left: rice with egg, carrots, onions, and parsley. Right: rice with leeks, spring onions (one bunch), shiitake mushrooms, and ginger.  This rice isn’t fried, my mother says, it’s a revuelto de arroz. A scramble of rice, or better still, rice turned over in the pan. With a wooden spatula, she lifts and […]

cabin cooking

Photo by Daniel Abrams There were eight of us for three bedrooms in a wooden cabin so intimate we could hear one another whisper before falling asleep. We drove two and a half hours west, from New York to the Poconos. When we arrived at the residence the sky was cloaked black. At the entrance […]

lemon

Our school in Melbourne organized camping trips every year. We would drive away from the city with two or three parents accompanying our teacher. We stayed for a week or so in a rudimentary camping ground with a communal kitchen. One summer we found ourselves lost, off-trail, in the middle of the Australian bush. The mother of a […]

une complète, s’il vous plaît!

I’m delighted and honored to feature Sara Zin‘s beautiful artwork in this post.   For more paintings, visit her illustrated cookblog: starving artist (and perhaps cook a recipe or two!) 1987, La Vallée, Bretagne. Not many have seen a Japanese woman when my mother arrives to this quiet country road lined with cornfields where my great aunt Germaine […]

thanking the salmon

This was our version of a Thanksgiving meal. My mother doesn’t like the tough meat of turkey, she prefers sockeye salmon, and so we thought of the holiday as more of an occasion to spend an afternoon cooking together. What a gift to have a full day in the middle of the week to indulge in […]

galettes in brittany

I’m honored to have a short piece on galettes and cider published in Public Streets this week! Photos by Geoffroy Bablon (top) and Patrick Lemoine  

gra-no-la: keep the nuts whole

       I sat down to write in order to stop eating the granola I made last night. Granola is addictive, but this one beckons me unless I hide it from sight. At the end of July I started searching for the recipe. I tried buckwheat, cocoa powder, cacao nibs, olive oil, coconut oil, coconut […]

a casablanca postcard: chicken tagine

guest post by Sarah Sahel Cooking requires the constant devolution of time. It is a demanding and regular lover. It does not settle for compromises, but gives itself fully to persistence. Ever since I graduated from my masters two years ago and joined the more time-consuming “professional world,” cooking has become a one-time fling, and […]

teriyaki sauce

guest post by Jason Ueda The first time my mom showed me how to make the sauce, she listed out the ingredients in her pleasant lilt of confidence: a cup of soy sauce, a cup of sugar, 1 to 1, turn on the heat, about this much garlic, the same for ginger, and about thiiis […]

red onion salad

My mother, who doesn’t like raw onion, scoops the raw slices with her chopsticks and crunches them with gusto. You would never guess that this is onion, she says, but only because it has been washed and soaked in cold water. We are in the middle of volcanic mountains, close to Mount Aso on the […]