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Misadventures in crumble

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I’m not sure where I got the idea that a crumble/crisp dessert was “foolproof” but I can now assure you this is not true. Perhaps I should known things were not going to go smoothly when I purchased some rhubarb at the market and asked (in my mauvais francais) for 200 kilograms instead of 200 […]

More meatless meals

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Now that we have a kitchen again, we here at Cooking the Books are delighted to continue with our review of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Good Food. At 996 pages, this is not a book to be taken lightly. And so, as with our review of Martha Stewart’s cookbook, […]

Dining Out and About: Pho 14

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

There has been much recent griping among travelers (particularly those of us who suffer from a weak currency) about the expense of Paris. I can’t disagree: the City of Light could very well be renamed the City of Light Pockets. But on recent rainy Saturday afternoon, we enjoyed a bona fide cheap eat, as we […]

Dining Out and About: In the banlieue

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Sorry for the brief interruption in posting. Our shipment of furniture and other household stuff arrived last week and we have been surrounded in a sea of boxes, trying to find places for all those things we thought we’d left behind in storage (I nearly died when the 1-ton ceramic Buddha statue showed up). Of course, […]

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