My friend Maia (you should really read her bio) and I have started a new Tumblr blog called seaweedbutter, and in the first post yesterday, I pondered whether Wednesday’s lobster roll from Red’s Eats in Wiscasset, Maine, was the ideal lobster roll—and whether it is heresy that I might prefer the Red Hook Lobster Pound [...]

Monday night I had a close friend over for dinner, and I made my favorite combination of summer – the foods that taste best to me at this moment in the year. Zucchini charred in the pan, crispy corn fritters, sliced seared skirt steak, and a sparkling squash blossom filled with goat cheese placed on [...]

My lovely friend Mica is not only a runner, a prolific blogger, a kthread VIP commenter, and a folder of fortune cookies, but also she carries vast knowledge of all things French with her wherever she goes. In her honor this Bastille Day, I am posting a picture from my holiday breakfast this morning of [...]

“This is the best lobster roll in New York, I can promise you that,” she said, handing me a warm, crunchy roll brushed with butter and filled with chunks of lobster within, scallions on top, a little celery beneath, seasoned just so. The roll is reason enough to visit the Brooklyn Flea in DUMBO on [...]

This mix ends with the glaring omission from the last podcast, which was about a new beginning in Brooklyn. I am blissfully happy, as most of you know, with the sounds and sights that surround me here (the picture below is from one of my wanderings). Do listen to the end, as the songs become [...]

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