A new book on the Mondavi dynasty shakes up the wine world.

California Winemaker Robert Mondavi Dies At 94 (Forbes.com) http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2008/05/16/mondavi-wine-obit-cx_pm_0516autofacescan05.html Robert Mondavi, Pioneering Winemaker (Business Week, By Julia Flynn Siler)...

Thanks for all the suggestions! As we may have brussels sprouts for Christmas Day, they won’t work....and the ratatouille would be lovely except that we just had a wonderful Julia version recently. I can’t believe I...

I can’t remember her exact words, but I always loved Julia Childs words on margerine: “Never will that loathsome substance cross my lips.” It made a big impression on my, I heard her say that on TV maybe 30...

hi frank, thanks for checking out the blog and for the nice comments...means alot, as for the bbq joint, what do you order...are you a traditional pulled pork kinda guy? What do you recommend? :) Julia ps. will prob check it out...

Backstage with Julia by Nancy Verde Barr. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse (not the cookbook) Just starting The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee (I believe there’s an explanation for the middle “8.”)

be wasted on inexpensive mainland food that is either too costly or unavailable to you. Also, what is your idea of “inexpensive”? Julia Child said that meals can be elegant, easy or economical — choose two of...

Applehome, MCSlim, Flynn, I am completely in agreement with your perceptive and articulate views on this. While foams are , for me, an unfortunate choice for the ‘flagship’ of this movement, I have NEVER in my life of...

Are you interested in making the pate instead of buying it? It’s not hard. It’s not even time consuming if you want to make, say, a chicken liver pate. If you want to make a really special pate, there’s an...

, disappointing yourself and your loved ones, wasting your precious time – but that not-fun process that No-body likes is the only way you get to be a good cook. Julia Child wrote that the first time she attempted to make a...

waiters, very good cocktails (naturally...) ruby fruit jungle in the west village (if you’re a girl) — good food, excellent appetizers, can’t comment on the staff but they’re friendly, very good cocktails...

Walking by Otto today I looked in through a window and saw a swarm of Carly Simon / Julia Roberts mouthed people (both male and female) - reminded me of the types that go to Blue Fin. Even standing outside my sixth sense said...

, but when I first tasted lamb that was properly cooked (rare), well, I now roast lamb on a fairly regular basis. I use Julia Child’s WAY TO COOK recipe, for which you slather a butterflied leg of lamb with a mustard paste...