Category: Movable Feast
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Spring in a Plate
Food memories the kind that instantly brings you back to a place, a table, a moment. Years ago, traveling with the children, we stayed in a hotel where they served a pasta with a sauce that wasn’t cooked. Just fresh…
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The Green Fairy Drink- Absinth
Absinthe—born in the late 18th century, first as a remedy, a tonic of wormwood and herbs. Switzerland, then France. It found its way into cafés, onto marble tables, into the rhythm of afternoons. Served slowly. A glass, a slotted spoon,…
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A Delicious Salad, my Favorite
Take a red chicory and an endive and tight, slice them thinly toss into a salad bowl and invite a cup of cooked rice, scatter a handful of pomegranate seeds, half of a freshly cooked beet (the other half will…
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Le Ciel on Top of the World
Ciel sits high above Marseille, a rooftop surprise in the middle of the city. At the top of the highest building, the view opens wide—over the rooftops, toward the Old Port, and across to Notre-Dame de la Garde watching over…
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The Abundant Table
Long tables stretch plates touching, stories crossing hands. Fences fade returning to earth, for foot steps to meet.paths opening where barriers once stood. A place where every chair holds placewhere hunger meets its answer in shared bread,where voices gather and rise…
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What’s for Dinner?
Cherry tomatoes are out of season. We all know that. But then there are greenhouses… In a large terra-cotta dish that I found at the brocante.Add about a pound of cherry tomatoes.Whole. Uncut.Nestled side by side— no stacking, single layer.…