Summers are marked, in my mind, by a triptych of grills. The first panel is centered on Memorial Day, the official opening of grilling season. This panel offers scenes of earlier efforts, when a planned late-April meal of grilled rack of lamb might turn into a cold, blustery, and miserable afternoon on the patio before …
Author Archives: Kevin Weeks
Hell’s Kitchen
June 23, 2008 – 5:00 am
Against my better judgment I watched Hell’s Kitchen the other night and. It contained: 3 times the recommended adult daily dose of nonsense 3 times the recommended adult daily dose of emotional garbage Twice the recommended adult daily dose of intellectual detritous And .05 percent of the recommended adult daily dose of real cooking So …
Attack of the Not-So-Killer Tomatoes
June 16, 2008 – 5:00 am
I’m almost as fed up (pun intended) with writing about food recalls as I am learning about them. Some good news on the food front would really be nice, but I’m afraid that with 238 people reportedly sickened with salmonella from contaminated tomatoes there is none this week. That 238 doesn’t sound like very many …
Special Occasions, Special Rewards
June 9, 2008 – 5:00 am
It’s mind-boggling, but my parents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this year. Actually, they celebrated it twice. The first occasion was on the actual date and the second time was a weekend in May when we gathered a slew of relatives at my sister’s farm in Virginia. As you might imagine, my task was cooking …
Literary Tapas: A Chef’s Selection
June 2, 2008 – 6:12 pm
When I started writing about food I immediately started reading what other people wrote about food – primarily as a way to learn how to write about food myself. One of the first books I picked up was Best Food Writing 2001 and I was amazed at how many different ways there are to write …
