Adapted from Ruth Reichl's My Kitchen Year (2015). Ruth describes this soup as “the most luxurious vegan dish I know.” On that first dreary and cold day of fall, this soup is comforting and so good. When we went to visit my brother Steve in November, he gave us a box … [Read more...]
Twin Towers Comfort Cake
Everyone who tries this cake loves it. I found the recipe in Gourmet magazine's first issue after 9/11, included in Ruth Reichl's Letter from the Editor. …Like just about everything else in this new life we're all leading, it happened in the aftermath of the Twin Towers … [Read more...]
Crab Cakes
We became connoisseurs of crab cakes on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, where the art of crab picking is still practiced. Of the many recipes we have tried, Ruth Reichl's version from her second volume of autobiography, Comfort Me with Apples, is our favorite. I can tell you … [Read more...]