Soup again!? Well, it's not just because it remains bitterly cold - today's overnight low broke a 40 year old record. Soup is great the day after the "wine / cheese / antipasti plate" splurge. Soup is often low in calories.
Read MoreCuckoo for Coconuts
If asked about favourite foods, my list may not have included coconut, and yet the more I think about it, the more I realize that some of my favourite foods include coconut. Yikes – maybe I am cuckoo for coconut!?
Read MoreA "Lens" on Lentils
I don’t recall eating a lot of lentils before I bought Ina Garten’s “Barefoot in Paris” (2004). If one can’t be in Paris – then eat what Parisians eat! I have tried many lentil recipes (and even have the ingredients lined up for a new one) but this is the one I return to most often.
Read MoreLast Supper Butter...
When I was a little girl, there was always butter on the counter. I used to drag my finger through it, savouring the eating of it, never owning up to the resulting butter massacre. These days, at some point in every visit to NYC, I can be found staring at the butter section in Dean and Deluca SOHO, drooling over the display of butters from all over the world – Ireland, France, the Netherlands...
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