Kathryn Borel’s failsafe butterpants hollandaise method

Cooking the Books – Episode 8 – Kathryn Borel from The Awl on Vimeo.

Pleased to meat you

Cooking the Books — Episode 6 — Julie Powell from The Awl on Vimeo.

Marisa Meltzer on Cooking the Books!

Cooking the Books — Episode 5 — Marisa Meltzer from The Awl on Vimeo.

Special sauce

Cooking the Books — Episode 4 — Jami Attenberg from The Awl on Vimeo.

Things my brain ate and loved

Instead of lying here in bed at dawn compulsively composing then deleting mind-emails to personal heroes that will strike the exact right tone of non-cloying self-effacement and non-obsequious flattery that will move them to consider blurbing (awful word) my book, I thought I would write about my dinner, and some other things I consumed yesterday.

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The native cuisine of Park Slope

… is Anna Klinger’s malfatti from al di la.  Authors, please email me at the address above if you would like to pimp your book by spending an afternoon in my kitchen …

I said pretend you’ve got no money

Penetrating the Park Slope Food Coop, over at Things I Ate That I Love.