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Category Archives: food
seafood risotto
The blog seems like a better, more permanent repository for recipes that matter than the scraps of paper floating around our kitchen. The following is from a note I printed out almost 10 years ago, attempting to reconstruct an improvised … Continue reading
a reduction of pants
This is a sort of minor rant-begets-another-rant. I found myself writing “pant” in the previous post, and this reminded me of an irritating ‑ism which I think must be made in America. I want to call it singularism, but this … Continue reading
the chocolate cake
Our neighbor Lisa made this for us once, after a delicious dinner full of lively conversation. It’s nothing much to look at. However, as we distractedly put the forks in our mouths, the conversation stopped. Here’s what Lisa wrote back … Continue reading
the red sauce
While we’re on the subject of food, I might as well share something very useful: the best red sauce for pasta. This discovery comes originally via a Marcela Hazan cookbook. the sauce use a wide, shallow pan drop in a large can (28oz) of the … Continue reading
popovers
For the five Augusts in 2008–2012, Adrienne is directing a course at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab (MBL) called Methods in Computational Neuroscience. We met at this course when Bill Bialek was directing it, in 1998. So the little … Continue reading