David Lebovitz's Blog, page 133

Onion Dip

A few weeks ago, I made plans to meet my friend Terresa in Pigalle, to check out a new épicerie (specialty food shop). I don't know if you're familiar with Pigalle, but the area has a certain well-deserved 'reputation' and if you're a middle-aged man walking around by yourself in the evening, casually looking in the windows of the cafés and bars, don't be surprised if a very scantily-clad woman tries to catch your eye back, and catch your fancy. And a few euros.

My friend was late, so ...

Menu for Hope 6 Winners Announced!

Menu for Hope 6 raffle winners have been announced here. This year we raised nearly $78,000 for the UN World Food Programme. Big thanks to all the folks who donated, as well as the bloggers and others who donated such fantastic bid items.

Congratulations to the Shana Worthen (EU39) who won the collection of two of my out-of-print cookbooks, plus an autographed copy of The Sweet Life of Paris.

And Armelle Deforge who won the Krups deep-fryer (EU42), offered in conjunction with Krups.

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Food Blogger Camp, part 2

There's nothing that can kill a great trip more than a bad airline experience. But since Twitter has now become the airline's biggest public relations headache, I won't complain about anything. Okay, except for the guy sitting in front of me for the 12-plus hour flight, who kept insisting that if he just leaned forward, then slammed his body backwards, his seat back would go back even further than the seat physically, would actually allow.

So even though it took a few minutes after ...

Food Blogger Camp, part 1

Yesterday was the best day of my life. Okay, it was the best day of the year. And since the year is only a couple of weeks old, there's probably going to be a few other contenders in the next fifty weeks. But still, yesterday would be pretty hard to beat.

To any 'normal' person, they might think that lazing in the sun for a few hours was bliss. But for me, it's all-you-can-eat tortillas. And I've been doing my best to make the buffet here at Club Med in Ixtapa live up to that...

Food Blog Camp, part 1

Yesterday was the best day of my life. Okay, it was the best day of the year. And since the year is only a couple of weeks old, there's probably going to be a few other contenders in the next fifty weeks. But still, yesterday would be pretty hard to beat.

To any 'normal' person, they might think that lazing in the sun for a few hours was bliss. But for me, it's all-you-can-eat tortillas. And I've been doing my best to make the buffet here at Club Med in Ixtapa live up to that...

Corrupting the Youth of Tomorrow

I don't know how you say "bad influence" in Spanish, but I think the photo pretty much says it better than I could—in any language...

Quelle différence!

Roasted Root Vegetable & Wheat Berry Salad

Last summer, Romain went to stay at a place in the French countryside with a large, semi-wild potager, a vegetable garden, which the people who lived there fed themselves from. They let weeds grown, didn't spray pesticides on anything, and they ate most of the food as close to raw as they could. During his stay, he called me and said that he never felt better in his life, and that he wanted to eat like that when he returned home to Paris.

One doesn't think of people in Paris...

E-Cookbooks: Now We're E-Cookin'?

First there was the music business, which shifted radically when people learned to download music digitally. Movies are up next, and like music, the challenge for the movie studios is to figure out how to get people to pay for movies that they're downloading digitally. And the next frontier is print media: newspapers, magazines, and books.

A few of my friends are traditional journalists, the kind of that get paid to write for newspapers and magazines. Whenever people say that blogs are g...

Potato-Leek Soup

I don't think I've ever made a New Year's resolution. Even if I did, I likely didn't have much success sticking with any of them, so I just don't bother with them anymore. Usually resolutions involve quickly-forgotten rules about eating better, losing weight, and saving money. (Which is probably why I never make them in the first place.) So I wouldn't place any bets that I'm going to stick with doing any of those three things this year, I'm happy to report that for those of you with more w...