March 2009 Archive
Apple and Maple Yogurt CakeKouglof
March 2009 Desktop Calendar
Miso Glazed Flank Steak
Peacamole
Spicy Cabbage and Chicken Stir-Fry
[Edible Idiom] Avoir la pêche
[Edible Idiom] Etre tout sucre tout miel
[Edible Idiom] Manger dans la main de quelqu'un
[Edible Idiom] Marcher sur des oeufs
March 31, 2009
Kouglof
Do you remember Muriel, from Muriel's Chicken? She's a good friend of Maxence's mother's who lives with her family in Le Perche, and whom we've been visiting every year or so with immense pleasure, and frequent sighs of contentment. Last time we went was in the fall, and Muriel's two lovely daughters had just started their school year; because t...
March 27, 2009
[Edible Idiom] Etre tout sucre tout miel
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of idioms featured so far. This week's idiom is, "Être tout sucre tout miel." Literally translated as, "being all sugar all honey," it means acting in an overtly affable, considerate, and polite way. It is chiefly used ironically, to point out th...
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March 24, 2009
Miso Glazed Flank Steak
I only ever buy meat from Mathieu, my butcher of choice at the organic greenmarket on Saturday mornings. I used to stop by every week and get enough for two meals or so, but the line is so long these days -- word must have gotten out that his stuff is good -- that I had to change my strategy: I go less frequently, buy a little more, and freeze th...
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March 20, 2009
[Edible Idiom] Avoir la pêche
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of idioms featured so far. This week's idiom is, "Avoir la pêche." Literally translated as, "having the peach," it means being in high spirits, having a lot of energy, feeling great physically and/or mentally -- in other words, feeling peachy! It is an...
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March 17, 2009
Apple and Maple Yogurt Cake
A year ago today, my sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy; the next morning, Maxence and I were on a train to visit them at the hospital. He was the freshest newborn I'd ever held, and for weeks afterward, the most mundane display of emotion I witnessed -- in a film, in a book, on the street -- could make me weep. I was an aunt, and not just o...
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March 13, 2009
[Edible Idiom] Manger dans la main de quelqu'un
Photography by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra. This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of idioms featured so far. This week's idiom is, "Manger dans la main de quelqu'un." Literally translated as, "eating out of someone's hand," it means submitting to someone, yielding to someone's opinion or authority...
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March 10, 2009
Peacamole
[Green Pea Cilantro Spread] If you've been invited to dinner at my house lately, the odds are high that you've been greeted with a glass of chilled white wine and a platter of multigrain crackers topped with this bright green spread. "Guacamole?" you may have asked. "No, peacamole!" I'll have responded, or rather, if you and I speak French toget...
March 6, 2009
[Edible Idiom] Marcher sur des oeufs
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of expressions featured so far. This week's idiom is, "Marcher sur des œufs." Literally translated as, "walking on eggs," it is equivalent to the English expression that appears more frequently as walking on eggshells*, i.e. acting with the greate...
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March 3, 2009
Spicy Cabbage and Chicken Stir-Fry
I've recently read a collection of stories by Lara Vapnyar called Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love. The six stories in this pretty volume talk about Russian immigrants to the United States, and use the revealing lens of food to show how they adapt to their new lives. Stories about migrants never fail to move me, and perhaps also because ...
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March 1, 2009
March 2009 Desktop Calendar
At the beginning of every month in 2009, I will be offering C&Z readers a new desktop calendar, i.e. a wallpaper to apply on the desktop of your computer, with a food-related picture and a calendar of the current month. Our desktop calendar for March is a picture of a chalkboard propped up in the window of a restaurant to advertise the lunch dea...
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