365 Days of Food

In our Thanksgiving dinner rolls you could really taste the herbs, and those of us who were more ambitious about preparing leftovers used the rolls to make a sandwich out of everything we could find: Turkey or squash along with a green salad and cranberry relish, and maybe some brussels sprouts. It was a day…

Thanksgiving was in a big house in the woods in western Massachusetts, where the trees were grey and there was snow on the ground. While we waited for dinner we passed the time with my two-year-old nephew, who made up a game of laying out cups and plates on the stairway and informing us that…

We went to see Hamilton and after so much time spent in anticipation, it was a little much to finally see the stage outfitted with nautical ropes and the middle-aged women in the audience looking like it was Christmas. I walked out of the theater feeling like I’d been shot, though I mean that in…

I spent the day without an agenda and walked most of the length of Central Park from Columbus Circle to Harlem, and there was still a red canopy over the ponds and lawns. The upper reaches of the park, which I haven’t visited much, felt empty and remote like the woods in snow. We met…

We met a friend for lunch at a taco restaurant in Park Slope where they smothered my enchiladas in mole poblano, and then, because it was cold outside, we walked into the Brooklyn Public Library, where the entrance is decorated with bronze figures of Peter Rabbit, Moby Dick, Babe the Blue Ox, and others. For…

We spent the afternoon at the MoMA and I did my best to think about the artistic movements of the past instead of whatever was happening on Facebook, and for dinner we went to one of the branches of Grimaldi’s pizza, which uses coal-fired ovens and is famous for its original location under the Brooklyn…

We went up to New York for a few days and had dinner at Aburiya Kinnosuke, a Japanese restaurant that we try to go to every time we’re there. We always tell them a price point and let them give us whatever they want, and their selections this time were tuna and salmon sashimi, followed…

We went on a staff trip to install solar panels on the rooftop of an apartment complex and ended up at Carmine’s, where we sampled from the mountain of fried zucchini and a lake of cheese ravioli, and overheard at least three birthday celebrations at nearby tables. I am grateful, as well, for the kind…

I’ll start Thanksgiving early and say I’m grateful for Ethiopian food, and that I live someplace where there are endless opportunities to try it. The minor-key sweetness of berbere is a sensation I will never take for granted, and today we ordered lentils, carrot stew, and collard greens, and a main dish of lamb tibs…

I stayed late at work and ordered tacos, spreading the salsa on the extra tortillas like jam, before I got a ride home in an Uber car that took me on a circular route that the computer had determined to be the fastest, and fog had settled over the Potomac and the bike trails and…

Steak marinated in lemon and pepper and cooked on the stove, enveloped in its juices. Viet also made me roasted potatoes cooked long enough to be as crisp as french fries. (Photo: Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.) >> November 16 << November 14

Viet made me lobster tails with potatoes au gratin and salmon on baguette slices, with more sweet white wine and a lot of butter, and the food seemed to go with the Supermoon that kept its headlights on us as it shined all night. (Photo: Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.) >> November 15 << November 13