For the past year or two, I’ve been fairly assiduously culling my cookbooks. They presently number something like 789, down from a thousand-ish. I have a pretty comprehensive spreadsheet for them—this was concomitantly a learn-spreadsheets trip—though at the moment with…
Tag: cooking
Veg Out
As I continue cooking into the void, I’ve found both existential fear and renewed inspiration. So not too too different from my daily state prepandemia. But a world of mass illness has an affect. One thing I can tell you…
Corned Beef, Belated
Corned my own beef brisket, didn’t I. Finally, I hasten to add. Craig Claiborne put the home-corning bug in my ear back in the 1980s, when I read his typically careful, appetizing instructions in his Favorites Volume I, but when…