[Photographs: Kerry Saretsky] Previously Pizza Savoyarde » All French in a Flash recipes » Last week I wrote about my trip to Provence this past summer, and my stay in a little seaside town called Cassis. I thought, from...
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This dish of mussels with fennel and orange is really a celebration of fennel. The base of the plant is chopped, the fronds are minced, and the seed is finely ground. But what's really remarkable, to me at least,...
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My mussel consumption has fallen drastically since I moved away from the East Coast. What used to be a dinner at least two to three times a month has now turned into something I only eat two to three...
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When I found head-on, tail-on shrimp at my local Korean market that didn't cost more than ribeye, I felt like I had won the lottery. It's not that I don't eat much shrimp—I always seem to have a bag...
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There’s no sweeter seafood than a scallop right out of the shell. At Le Bernardin, they’re charred only on their sides and left ultra-rare in the middle to preserve that amazing sweetness. The smoky, salty garnish of oven-dried Niçoise olives...
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--> I first encountered crab fried rice at Spoon Thai, up in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. It was an afterthought of an order, but I kind of fell in love with it. Instead of greasy and heavy, it was...
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I’ve almost given up on crab cakes, because restaurants seem to want to put anything in them—from breadcrumbs to mashed potatoes—but crab. Ironically, Le Bernardin puts its crab-only crab cakes in quotation marks, so as not to mislead the...
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It began its life as a pizza sauce, nothing more than some canned tomatoes, a slug of red wine and olive oil, and some salt. After all the dough was used, I poured the bright red liquid into a...
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