Tuesday, December 8, 2009

This Should Be Fun

The dilema - as if I need another challege. How do I blend my love of reading, my love of cooking and my love of collecting books (not to mention my love of my Nantucket Gray kitchen - well - it will be love as soon as I can afford a new stainless steel stove) into one cohesive whole? The idea hit me in a Newton's Apple moment - I think it was a Fuji. Once a week (I would promise myself more often, but who am I kidding) I will dust off one of those many cookbooks I have collected over the decades and make a dish to photograph, taste and review. The idea of working one's way through an entire treatise, a la Julie & Julia, has already been done, and doesn't really interest me. But just think of it - I have books on fish, and casseroles, on vegetables and poultry. I have Italian, and Jewish, and Slovenian. I have Chinese, Irish, and Indian. Books about cooking in Greece and Spain. Then there is festival cooking, like Christmas, and Hannukah, Thanksgiving and Halloween. So, I start this Saturday, December 12. By sheer good fortune, it will be Hannukah. Not being Jewish, I hope to do it justice.

Come join me at my table.