Archive for the ‘deathbed memories’ Category
Undiscovered Italy
June 2001New York Times
PANTELLERIA, SICILY — My first dinner on this remote island was like waking in a dream. (more…)
Curacao
September 1998Islands
If Arizona were an island, it would be Curaçao. That was my absurdly confident conclusion after just a few days on the largest of the Netherlands Antilles. (more…)
Give me that old-time kitchen
September 1995House Beautiful
When my consort and I set out to buy an apartment with a dream kitchen, all we were looking for was a big, bright, airy space where we could move right in and immediately start cooking. Two years and 325 apartments later, we had refined our fantasy enough to recognize potential perfection when we saw it. (more…)
Some fry it hot
September 1989Esquire/The Seasoned Cook/
Two nonswimmers who burn under a reading lamp find themselves in midwinter baking on the beaches of Barbados. To escape the locals solicitiously hawking milky aloe vera in rum bottles, they drag their reddened bodies into a rented Mini Moke and jolt up the Platinum Coast. Already they’ve eaten their way through the tame flying fish and stuffed crab and callaloo at the places the guidebooks tout as showcases for Bajan fare. Now they’re in search of real food. (more…)