Messing around with recette du chef Pierre Jancou, proprietaire du restaurant Racines à Paris, parue dans Elle à table: 6 œufs 300g de chocolat noir 120g de beurre demi-sel 1 expresso très fort 80g de sucre en poudre cocoa nibs (merci Monsieur David Lebovitz!) Préchauffez le four à 200°C.Fait...

Somewhere between thanking God for opposable thumbs for stirring and hand heels for kneading and electricity for oven-baking, while waiting for the malted* wheat and bran and barley dough to rest and rise, we were talking about the application of James 4:13-17 to baking**. Come now, you who say,"Tod...

Saturday night pizzas and sparkling rosés. A cake in oven* after the pizzas. Then chocolate chip biscuits and earl greys. And we were telling stories of stories by telling the stories. Because the best way to describe a story is to tell it. What a wonderful thing to be a real teller of stories, to ...

At dinner, there was an old Christmas tree resisting retirement to the storeroom. It attempted to stay relevant for the lunar new year of the ox by having a squeezy cow tied to it with red ribbon and garnished with a plastic gold ingot. Looking down from her tree perch, festive cow observed the conv...

Childhood fantasies are funny things, and in their own way, naive and selfishly insular. For children barred from eating any sort of red meat, fascination with the smell and texture of the cooked flesh of dead cows. For children for whom sugar (refined, or of the fresh cherry or strawberry sucrose v...

The non-objectivity of the world as disclosed by the photographic lens? ...the object is never anything more than an imaginary line. The world is an object that is both imminent and ungraspable. How far is the world? How does one obtain a clearer focus point? Is photography a mirror which briefly ca...

Christmas in Singapore. Outside: the constant patter of grey rain. Inside: the citrus and spice fragrance of clove-studded orange pomanders. Roast turkeys being carved. A large bit of ham. Carols sung slightly off key. Jolliness and glow. Old friends. Exchanging gifts. The sweet whisky-soaked dried ...