The Flexitarian Cook

It all started when our friends accepted our dinner invitation, and our vegetarian daughter was going to be out for the evening. What’s a flexitarian to do? Sure, I could have stuck to a meatless dinner plan, but why? The beauty of eating a mostly plant-based diet is that occasionally, you get to indulge in [...]

Most people (and gorillas, apparently) have a hard time keeping away from some kind of food.  Chips, ice-cream, cookies, something crunchy, salty or sweet (heck, bananas too) are just the kind of fix many of us need at some time or other. We all have our favorites, don’t we? Personally, I’d advise you keep the [...]

As college students in Paris twenty-five a few years ago, my friends and I used to go to a little Italian restaurant in the 6th arrondissement, on the rue Clément, called Le Golfe de Naples. The owner, Attilio, would serve us some cheap but seriously enjoyable food; I know that the restaurant still exists, but [...]