April 23, 2013
Parents Who Cook: Tamami Haga
Tamami Haga, photographed by Andy Andrews.
Tamami Haga is a Japanese Londoner and passionate baker who sells her handmade chocolates and pastries from a stall at Broadway Market in Hackney, East London. She also writes the lovely blog Coco & Me, which I've been following for years and years, and mixes her experiences as a stall-keepers with inspiring -- and precisely written -- recipes. I love her Luxury Brownies in particular. She is currently...
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April 11, 2013
Draw Me A Fridge: Luisa Weiss
Luisa's sketch of her fridge.
For this new installment of our Draw Me A Fridge series (read about it here), Alexia spoke with Luisa Weiss.
Luisa Weiss blogs at The Wednesday Chef and is the author of the best-selling food memoir My Berlin Kitchen, which was published last September by Viking. She's half American, half Italian and was born in Berlin. She moved back to her birth city three years ago, after spending a decade in New York. She now ...
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March 12, 2013
Parents Who Cook: Michael Ruhlman
James and Michael, photographed by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
Parents Who Cook is a Q&A series in which I ask my guests about how their cooking has changed after kids entered the picture, and pick their brains on their best strategies to cook with little ones underfoot.
Michael Ruhlman is an American writer who specializes in understanding the professional chef's craft, and making that expertise accessible to the home cook.
He has published twelve...
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March 4, 2013
Draw Me A Fridge: Alexandre Cammas
Photography by Dustin Aksland.
For this new installment of our Draw Me A Fridge series (read about it here), Alexia spoke with Alexandre Cammas. (Interview conducted in French and translated by us.)
Food writer Alexandre Cammas is the creator of Le Fooding, a guide that helps you find the latest restaurants to get a great meal anywhere in France, and also organizes events in France and beyond. The Fooding 2013 guide can be ordered on the websi...
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December 18, 2012
Mochi Truffles
This is a good time of year to reflect upon one's blessings, and among the very many things I feel grateful for is the way this blog connects me with remarkable people whose path I might never have crossed otherwise.
Case in point: Colins Kawai, the marketing director of the University of Hawaii Press, but also an artisan chocolatier and the founder of Choco Le'a ("chocolate pleasures"), a small chocolate company based in Hawaii that he starte...
November 27, 2012
Draw Me A Fridge: Dan Barber
For this new installment of our Draw Me A Fridge series (read about it here), we spoke with Dan Barber.
Dan Barber is the chef behind one of my all-time favorite restaurants, Blue Hill, in NYC's Greenwich Village, and a farm-restaurant upstate, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, to which I've been longing to go for years. He is one of the most prominent chefs in the US, he's an active participant in the discussion on ethics and sustainability, and he w...
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October 23, 2012
Draw Me A Fridge: Clea
Illustration by Olivier Valentin. Click to enlarge.
For this new installment of our Draw Me A Fridge series (read about it here), Alexia spoke with food writer Claire Chapoutot.
Claire Chapoutot is better known as Clea, of Clea Cuisine-fame, a food blog in which she's been presenting her mostly vegetarian recipes (she describes herself as a flexitarian) since 2005. Claire has two new cookbooks out: Recevoir en bio and Solo et bio (La Plage edi...
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September 26, 2012
Draw Me A Fridge: Hervé This
For this new installment of our Draw Me A Fridge series (read about it here), Alexia met with Professor Hervé This.
Hervé This (pronounced "tiss") is an internationally renowned physico-chemist, a professor at the AgroParisTech institute, and the only person to hold a doctorate in molecular gastronomy, a cutting-edge field he co-created with Nichola Kurti. (See also: Notes from the moleculat gastronomy conference.)
A long-time accomplice to f...
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August 1, 2012
Draw Me A Fridge: Septime's Bertrand Grébaut
For the first installment of our new Draw Me A Fridge series (all the details here), Alexia met with Bertrand Grébaut, chef of the Paris restaurant Septime.
A former head chef at Agapé (where he was awarded a Michelin star in record time), trained by Passard and Robuchon, Bertrand Grébaut opened up his restaurant Septime in April 2011. The long waiting list hasn't shortened since, nor has the impeccable, friendly service of his team wavered.
AC...
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July 30, 2012
Draw Me A Fridge: A New Interview Series
With the help of (and based on an idea by) my friend Alexia Colson-Duparchy, I am pleased to launch a new series on Chocolate & Zucchini titled Draw Me A Fridge, in which she will be grilling personalities from the food world and beyond about what's in their fridge. Those who feel inspired will be providing a doodle to illustrate it.
But first, meet Alexia Colson-Duparchy!
Raised on quinoa and wild rice from her early days, long before they w...
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July 9, 2012
Chocolate Naive: A Q&A With Domantas Užpalis
Today I bring you an interview with Domantas Užpalis, a bean-to-bar chocolate maker from Lithuania who contacted me a few months ago to tell me about his project, Chocolate Naive: he and his team roast, winnow, grind and temper their own chocolate in a manufacture based in the Lithuanian countryside.
He offered to send samples of their new collection, which includes a 43% milk chocolate, a 68% Uganda chocolate with fleur de sel, a 71% Grenada ...
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September 2, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Sarah McColl
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Sarah McColl is a senior editor at Yahoo! Shine and the very lovable writer behind Pink of Perfection, a lifestyle blog on which the Dallasite-turned-Brooklynite discusses everything a girl needs to feast, delight and flourish. She does so with a gracious and insightful touch that makes readers feel she and they could be th...
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August 31, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Tara Austen Weaver
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Tara Austen Weaver, a.k.a. Tea, is the Seattle-based author of the blog Tea & Cookies, on which she discusses cooking, gardening, traveling, reading, and writing, weaving stories into it all with a gentleness and honesty that set her apart. She is the author of the memoir The Butcher and the Vegetarian, and she has just rel...
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August 29, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Chika Yoshizaki
Photography by Chika Yoshizaki.
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Chika Yoshizaki is the Japanese writer, photographer, and translator behind the blog She who eats, where her luminous photography allows us a glimpse into the kind of foods she cooks and eats in Tokyo, and wherever her frequent travels take her.
Here she tells us about traveling with a bottl...
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August 26, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Gena Hamshaw
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Gena Hamshaw is the author of Choosing Raw, a blog that showcases high-raw, vegan foods. I have long been curious about "alternative" diets and their effects on our health and our planet, and I enjoy the accessible, relatable way Gena writes about hers, with nuggets of wisdom and level-headed advice drawn from her experienc...
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August 24, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Lucy Vanel
Photography by Lucy Vanel.
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Lucy Vanel is an American writer and photographer who lives in Lyon, and writes beautifully about food on her blog Lucy's Kitchen Notebook. She has a particular talent for capturing minute moments, holding them up in her hand for us to see before they vanish, and I always leave her blog feeling li...
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August 22, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Heidi Swanson
Photography by Wayne Bremser.
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Heidi Swanson is the talented writer and photographer behind the blog 101 Cookbooks, which never ceases to inspire me with its quietly elegant recipes promoting natural, whole foods, and the lifestyle to match. Heidi lives in San Francisco, and her most recently published cookbook is the gorgeo...
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August 19, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Derrick Schneider
Photography by Melissa Schneider.
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Derrick Schneider is an Oakland-based programmer, puzzle designer, and writer who created one of the first food blogs ever, An Obsession With Food, which I credit for giving me the blogging bug back in the day. Derrick is a regular contributor to the Art of Eating, among other publications,...
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August 18, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Luisa Weiss
Photography by Luisa Weiss.
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Luisa Weiss is a New York writer currently based in Berlin, and the author of the wonderful blog The Wednesday Chef, which documents her cooking life with inimitable verve and style. She was kind enough to answer my questions just as she was nearing the deadline for the manuscript of her much-ant...
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August 16, 2011
Cooking on Vacation by Molly Wizenberg
Photography by Molly Wizenberg.
This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Molly Wizenberg is the author of the blog Orangette, which glows with her unique writing voice. She has published a best-selling memoir called A Homemade Life, and she and her husband Brandon Pettit have created a well-loved pizza place in Seattle called Delancey, where I hope to dine some da...
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August 15, 2011
Cooking on Vacation: A Q&A Series
Tomatoes with fresh cheese and herbs eaten in Croatia.
To keep you entertained while I take a little break, I've asked a few of my favorite bloggers and friends to tell me about the kind of cooking they do on vacation, whether they're visiting friends or family, renting a place, camping, etc. I wasn't necessarily looking for anything fancy, and was just as interested in the lazy stuff one cooks under those circumstances.
I'll be publishing thi...
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October 14, 2008
The Blind Cook: a Q&A
A few months ago, I received an unusual email from an American reader of Chocolate & Zucchini, David E. Price, a former geologist and now computer programmer who goes to graduate school in Salt Lake City, and is an enthusiastic cook.
David explained that he had purchased copies of my books but that -- and here comes the unusual part -- because he was blind, he was wondering if there was a computer-readable version he could have access to: he was...
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