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Corona Virus Diary 14: How To Roast A Chicken in Water

Corona Virus Diary 14: How To Roast A Chicken in Water

July 30th, 2020 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, General

There seems to be heightened attention to all matters culinary in the Time of COVID. That’s a good thing, I think. Keeps people out of restaurants and other enclosed spaces and builds skill that we should all have anyway. Dining Chez-Nous We are people who cook and...
Corona Virus Diary 4: Safely Stocking the Larder

Corona Virus Diary 4: Safely Stocking the Larder

April 17th, 2020 | business and finance, Cooking, Kitchen and Table, General, Health, Shopping, Society at Large

I have long disliked going to the grocery store. From the time I was twenty and in my first apartment I made a list based on a strict budget, went in, collected items, paid up and got out. My mother loathed going to the store with me. I was boring, she complained. I...
Christmas Letter 2019

Christmas Letter 2019

December 6th, 2019 | Architecture and Design, Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, Family, Genealogy, General, Health, literature and poetry, Travel, visual arts

My Dear One, noticing that we had a lot of empty calendar space from the end of October to the beginning of November, suggested that we fly off to somewhere in Europe. France? Italy? It took almost no time to decide on the Veneto. For ten days we nested in the...
Fall in the Veneto 3: Buon Appetito

Fall in the Veneto 3: Buon Appetito

November 21st, 2019 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, Travel

I travel to eat. My Dear One not so much, although he takes pleasure when we hit the culinary jackpot. Eating is not just about finding those restaurants you want to keep secret from Tripadvisor and Yelp. It’s about the idea of food, the way local ingredients might be...
Hyggelig 6: A Copenhagen Miscellany

Hyggelig 6: A Copenhagen Miscellany

May 26th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Travel

Note to self: if there is the chance to drop off luggage before the room has been prepared, drop off everything except for telephone, wallet, camera and guidebook. As we waved hej-hej (that’s “bye-bye”) to Lars the landlord and strolled into town, I realized that my...
Hyggelig 1: Living Cozy

Hyggelig 1: Living Cozy

May 9th, 2018 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, Shopping, Travel

Apartment 1 in the Central Canal Apartments, Wildersgade, 15, in the Christianshavn neighborhood in Copenhagen is snug. No rugs for bugs and no room for much else. A rack accommodates clothes on hangers but stuff that would go into drawers must stay in suitcases. The...
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