May 31, 2007
More Notes from the Book Tour
Where were we? Ah, yes: last time we spoke, I had just arrived in Seattle. I am now home, tired but happy, and I thought I would share a few more thoughts and highlights from the final week of my US book tour, between Seattle and San Francisco.
Sharpie. In under two weeks, I managed to go from not knowing what a Sharpie was -- this brand of marker doesn't exist in France -- to being very particular about the Sharpie that I used: if it's a fine...
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May 21, 2007
Notes from the Book Tour
I am writing this post from above the clouds, somewhere between Chicago and Seattle*. I am about halfway through my book tour, and because I'm all for sharing the behind-the-scenes details, I thought I would tell you a bit about the life of a touring author.
Media escorts. In each city that I visit, a media escort has been hired to accompany me: this is someone who knows the area well, who has my schedule, and who drives me from one engagement...
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May 15, 2007
The Shortest 3 1/2 Minutes of my Life
As some of you have already reported, my cookbook was featured on the Today Show* this morning -- you can view the segment online. This was my very first television experience, and it was a fun, fascinating, and rather nerve-racking one: I'll admit I didn't sleep so well the night before, and the jetlag can't have helped.
But the segment was so short -- just three and a half minutes -- that it was over before I had time to even realize it had ...
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May 11, 2007
Here We Go!
I am sitting at my desk, still on a buzz from an excellent lunch at a friend's house. It is late on Saturday afternoon and I am leaving in the morning. I am looking at the one and only copy of my book I have seen so far, and thinking of the many more I'm going to handle over the next two weeks. I have bought a permanent marker but still have no idea what one is supposed to write when one signs a copy of one's book.
I am reading through the ho...
May 9, 2007
Muffins Carotte et Cacahuète
[Carrot and Peanut Muffins]
In the interminable list of blessings that come with having a food blog is this one: readers will come forward and share their favorite recipes with you.
I am always honored to receive these gifts and the stories that are delivered with them, and even though I seldom get around to making the dishes (my epitaph will read, "So Many Recipes, So Little Time"; I've left instructions), they do contribute to my inner culi...
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May 1, 2007
Beurre de Brebis
[Ewe's Milk Butter]
Every once in a while, life presents the gourmand with a scintillating novelty that tickles his curiosity with such insistence that he is left with the willpower of a charmed snake. So when I read about ewe's milk butter in ELLE a couple of weeks ago (you would do well to keep an eye on those Vie Privée/Cuisine pages at the end of the magazine, they're full of inspired ideas), it was all I could do not to run out and buy so...
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