Allegra Goodman Quote

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i...

Dear Mr. Beard,On the radio last spring, President Roosevelt said that each and every one of us here on the home front has a battle to fight; We must keep our spirits up. I am doing my best, but in my...

Do you make pizza dough?Yes.This is the same thing. Very easy. When the yeast was foamy, she added flour, olive oil, and salt and handed me a large wooden spoon. Now you stir it hard until it comes to...

Now alongside Scovell, John eased preserved peaches out of galliot pots of syrup and picked husked walnuts from puncheons of salt. He clarified butter and poured it into rye-paste coffins. From the Ma...

Is there anything I can do?He gave her a tired grin. Crawl in bed with me.She glared at him, then got up and tossed him a terry-cloth robe she found hanging on the back of the bathroom door. Meet me i...

Once he left the Haywood out for her with a page number on a scrap of paper, and she opened the book to recipes for Distillation. Jess laughed at the page George had found for her. There, between inst...

I bit into the chocolate chip. Slowed myself down.By then, almost a week in, I could sort through the assault of layers a little more quickly. The chocolate chips were from a factory, so they had that...

Time for lunch. Take me somewhere good. Somewhere Italian.She chose Vine, one of the cafes on the main plaza, and ordered a burrata and squash blossom pizza. The fluffy soft cheese, drizzled with frui...

But every once in a great while, the pull of her heritage would hit her, and Grand-mere would cook something real. I could never figure out what it was that triggered her, but I would come home from s...

Returning to the buffet, she helped herself to another piece of focaccia bread, the top glistening with a sheen of olive oil and sprinkled with big crystals of salt, fronds of rosemary and tiny curls...