I have a distinct childhood memory of being completely disgusted by my grandmother putting salt and pepper on an otherwise perfectly good slice of cantaloupe. This was before I baked my first batch of cookies and saw how salt can bring out sweetness, and long before a Belgian exchange student introduced me to the joys [...]
I thought maybe Brooklyn wasn’t going to get a real summer this year. It’s been cool and rainy around these parts for months. (Which is part of why the Northeast is likely going to have a sad tomato crop.) Then, last weekend, August descended upon us with a vengeance, and a week early to boot. [...]
I get absurdly excited about sour cherries. I think it’s because they’re around for such a short time before they’re gone until next year. I missed them last year. I was busy or out of town, and by the time I got around to them, all I could find was one sad-looking,overpriced container of bruised, [...]
This isn’t so much a recipe as a very easy technique. The first time I had peppers blistered like this was in Spain, and they were a revelation. They were pimientos de Guernica, mild but flavorful little peppers, fried in olive oil until blistered, then tossed with coarse sea salt. The sweetness of the pepper, [...]
