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Bernini’s Beloved
My brilliant sister Sarah has a new and astonishing book. “Enthralling. . . . McPhee’s book is rich in historical detail, and truly an original contribution that will be welcomed by scholars, students, and general readers.”—Elizabeth Cropper, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art “A highly original work by an [...]
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Tags: Art H, Art History, Bernini, Sarah McPhee, Yale University Press
IN GOOD COMPANY (from More Magazine — November 2007) On a corner in Fort Worth’s Southside, my friend Donatella Trotti (known as Dodi) has opened a tiny trattoria. It is called Nonna Tata, after her grandmother, and is in a 500-square-foot cinderblock building on a seemingly lonely street. The cozy interior is completely designed by [...]
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Tags: Donatella Trotti, Fort Worth, In Good Company, Italian recipes, Lasagna Verde. Torta al Limone, More Magazine, Nonna Tata
Happy New Year
one of the things i love to do most is cook. over the holidays i made two dishes i’ve not made before: bouillabaisse (which I now know how to spell) and potato pizza both are easy and quite delicious. i encourage you to make both. happy new year, 2012, the year of the dragon. i’m [...]
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Tags: bouillabaisse, Gourmet, potato pizza
Merry Christmas
do you remember stringing cranberries and popcorn? the cashier girl at the food store asked me what i was doing with the cranberries and popcorn and oranges. “a recipe?” she asked. i told her about stringing cranberries and making dried orange ornaments. “cool. i’ve never heard of that.”
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Let Nothing You Dismay
In my mother’s basement, the Christmas after my grandmother had died, I found the top of a box that had belonged to her. My mother and I were down there retrieving ornaments and lights so that we could decorate the tree, a painful Christmas that year, 1995. My stepfather had died not long before my [...]
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Three Beautiful Food Blogs
forty-sixth at grace Seven Spoons Kiss My Spatula
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Tags: forty-six at grace, kiss my spatula, seven spoons
I have always found my portal into another culture to be through its food. In March I went to the jungle outside of Merida and stayed in a colonial hacienda that had been transformed into a private home, soaring ceilings and rioting vegetation just outside the screened doors, the constant song of doves. At this [...]
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Tags: Flan, Hacienda Petac, Key Lime Pie, masa harina, Merida, Panuchos, tortilla press, Yucatecan Cuisine
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