Tomato Soup
Yesterday, I was working at Starbucks (Freelancers Central) when a lady standing by the doors tipped over into a drug-induced trance. The baristas immediately called 9-1-1, but the woman sitting next to me, the one who’d seen the whole incident…
An Ode to Tomatoes, and a Caprese Salad
Can I tell you my favorite way of eating tomatoes? Actually, let me qualify that question, because I think we can all agree that eating in-season tomatoes is a distinctly different experience from eating ordinary tomatoes. I think tomatoes are…
Yotam Ottolenghi’s Soba with Eggplant and Mango
On lazy evenings, when dinner is only an afterthought, my parents like to steam eggplant until it’s soft. Until it became a soggy pulp, it always seemed to me, whose eggplant taste had been diluted to the point of extinction….
