Stories About Food

Endives Salad with Sage/Sherry Vinaigrette

During my time in Paris in December I enjoyed a festive dinner with friends at Josephine, Chez Dumonet. Our evening started with a bottle of 1973 Doisy Daene Sauternes and foie gras. I suggested adding an Endives and Roquefort salad to our first course for the table, as Roquefort is also a classic pairing with Sauternes. Read more »

Tasting Wine in Burgundy

Among the things I like best about what I do is getting to taste extraordinary wines in beautiful places. Today we visited the winery of one of my good friends. Located in the town of Meursault, Evening Land makes nuanced Burgundies, both white and red.

We tasted through an delicious selection on this sunny afternoon. Milles mercis to Mark and Whitney.

À votre Santé!

I Love Lemons

Lemons may be the most underestimated and underrated of all fruit.  When someone is asked to name their favorite fruit, how often do you hear the answer: lemons?

I’m not even sure I thought of lemons as a “fruit” when I was a child back in Chicago, Illinois.  Sure, we enjoyed glasses of cold, sweet lemonade on hot  summer afternoons (always made from freshly squeezed lemons, there was none of that powdered stuff back then). We even sold the beverage from a little stand in front of our apartment building, but no one we knew ever actually ATE a lemon!

And I remember my dad once made a Caesar Salad in our big mahogany bowl. I watched in amazement as he rubbed the bowl with garlic. He mashed an anchovy, then squeezed the lemon and made a paste before adding the olive oil.  Tossed with crisp romaine leaves, it was a delight for my young taste buds.  I can’t imagine Caesar Salad without that burst of lemon. Read more »