The year when everything changed — L’année quand tout a changé
I’ve been meaning to tell you about my weakness for anything involving potatoes. Growing up, my mother prepared râpés de pommes de terre (grated potatoes cooked like small galettes, close to latkes)...
View ArticleLa Tartine Gourmande & Envoyé spécial la suite
Lobster fishing — La pêche au homard L’histoire est un peu longue à raconter. Tout est arrivé vite; un courriel, puis un deuxième, et un troisième…une surprise totale. En quelques mots, j’ai eu la...
View ArticleWatercress risotto with scampi and scallops — Risotto aux langoustines,...
I cook risotto every week. Sometimes the dish is hearty. Sometimes I prefer to turn it into an elegant and dressed-up meal. But always, risotto flows naturally, like a play well rehearsed. It’s a good...
View ArticlePoisson d’avril
Red snapper It’s not a joke. We woke up this morning to three inches of snow. And despite the fact that snow is not going to be welcomed in April, especially as I had starting gardening, I found this...
View ArticleSaveur’s Food Blog Awards 2011
I was about to let you know about Heidi’s new beautiful cookbook–I know you all know of it already–and then I received two emails this morning from a Saveur‘s editor, notifying me that La Tartine...
View ArticleLate summer days on Cape Cod
Why can I have neglected to visit Cape Cod more often? I wondered. I didn’t expect that Cape Cod, the Cape as we Bostonians call it, would look so beautiful with its near-to empty beaches and warm...
View ArticleWhen I found Romanesco
Linguine with Romanesco and scampi recipe The snow melted within two days, leaving room to fall again. A gorgeously sunny one on top. We were glad that we’d only had a tease of winter. We were not...
View ArticleThe soup which connects earth and sea
Snapshots of Block Island in October It’s the story of a soup that connected us to a place and a moment. Between earth and sea. About a month ago, Lulu, P. and his parents and I traveled to Block...
View ArticleThe Fish of Alaska
Sitka Lake When you are invited by the Alaskan Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) to participate in a Seafood Culinary Retreat during which you will go fishing to learn about Alaska’s wild and...
View ArticleMâche Salad with Potato Galettes and Scallops
Mâche Salad with Potato Galettes and Scallops When I was growing up, my mother always kept mâche (lamb’s lettuce) in her garden. We loved that it was the only salad we could grow year round,...
View ArticleFood Photography retreats in Greece, September 2018
Hello everyone! So happy to be returning today (after such a long time, I know…..), especially because I came to share a project I’ve been working on for a few months now. It’s a good reason! In...
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