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Eating for Renaissance 16 Jun 2013 | 09:10 pm
We pay an unseemly amount of property tax for the privilege of living in Montclair and being able to send three kids to the public schools. Yet those schools still need help, and every family’s calend...
Ode to Franny’s 10 Jun 2013 | 03:55 pm
A good recipe is a little bit like a good poem—the inspired arrangement of the familiar (words, ingredients) to produce pleasure and surprise. The effects, when they work, are subtle, unexpected. The ...
What Is It About Ice Cream? 30 Apr 2013 | 01:31 am
Picture above, staged and ready to go, part of a dozen “One Night in Bangkok” Sundaes, the overall idea and recipes courtesy of our dessert secret weapon, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home. The ice c...
Sweet Seventeen 18 Feb 2013 | 01:43 am
Our seventeenth dinner. Seventeen! A lot of menus, a lot of planning. Especially for this group of guests, more than half of whom were repeats…four of them multiple repeats, in fact. So the challenge ...
Sharing the Table, Sharing the Music 16 Dec 2012 | 08:25 pm
Our last charity dinner of 2012 came on an auspicious date, December 8th: It’s the date of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, honoring the Catholic dogma that from the moment Mary was conceived, ...
Sharing the Table – “Veg au Vin” 24 Nov 2012 | 07:29 am
Our third vegetarian dinner. Like the previous two, it forces a different way of thinking. How to satisfy the carnivores? How to surprise the vegetarians? Will there be enough food? And as in the prev...
It Starts with Pissaladiere (Sharing the Table XIV) 22 Oct 2012 | 06:48 am
The story of this meal is about being hungover, still, from Truro. For example, we’d met a friend and his family for a day at the beach, then returned to our house. Earlier that day I’d picked about a...
Sharing the Table XIII 2 Oct 2012 | 04:24 pm
Months passed between this dinner and our previous Sharing the Table. For the second year in a row we had to cancel our June meal; in 2011 a flash flood knocked us out (let’s say it started by killing...
Sharing the Table XII 29 Sep 2012 | 03:55 am
[This dinner took place on 12 May 2012, and this article was originally posted with the title, "Burying the Lede."] We hosted our twelfth Sharing the Table in the middle of May. It was a vegetarian me...
Sharing the Table XI 29 Sep 2012 | 03:43 am
[This dinner took place on 20 April 2012.] In the midst of a demanding stretch at work, when it was impossible to think about anything Ingredients, we hosted our latest Sharing the Table. It was good ...
