- Wednesday, April 07, 2010
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Mother’s Best Mother's Best | By Lisa Schroeder with Danielle Centoni | (Taunton Press $28 hardcover)
Posted by Kim Davaz • 12:30am
Chef compiles dishes Mother would have made A Portland restaurant owner fills her book with recipes from “Mothers of the Month” By Kim Davaz The lack of good home-style cooking in restaurants led to an epiphany for Lisa Schroeder. What the world needed was good food like mothers used to make (or you wished they did). She studied at the Culinary Institute of America; slaved away at the very posh, very well-starred Le Cirque in Manhattan; then traveled through France, Italy, Spain and Morocco. In Morocco, she realized there weren’t many restaurants because Moroccans eat the foods their mothers and grandmothers…
- Thursday, April 01, 2010
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View from a seat behind the wing
Posted by CD • 12:23pm
Had a few minutes in a row 40 window seat on Delta flight 43 from Paris to Cincinatti. Flying about 35,000 feet a little southwest of Iceland over the North Atlantic.
- Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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On the go Métro
Posted by CD • 6:10pm
Correspondence from Line 1 to Line 8 at Concorde.
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Beware of pickpockets Audio: Make sure your bags are properly closed and keep an eye on your belongings
Posted by CD • 6:51pm
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He deserved a longer street
Posted by CD • 1:21pm
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made the first photograph in 1826. While “View from the Window at Le Gras” might not be the most spectacular photograph ever made, it was the beginning. The street named for him in the 14th Arrondissement is only a block long. The inventor of photography deserved more.
