I have had a revelation.
I love to write. I love to write about food, ingredients, recipes, cooking techniques… For God’s sake, I could lovingly, longingly write about grocery shopping! My ‘revelation’ is that I can’t stand writing out recipes. It’s painstakingly technical. It takes all of the creativity of cooking and throws it out [...]

My Mother, God rest her soul, was truly the antithesis of a cook. The arch nemesis of a chef. The prototypical, should never have have had 5 children, kind of cook.
But, being Irish Catholic, she just buried her head in the sand, and faked it.
My father was enormously successful when I was young and my [...]