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Kitchen Detail: A Different Grilled Pork Tenderloin

A great grill idea from a French master.

July 6, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: Focaccia, Focacce

This meal-time treat began as an edible dinner plate.

June 29, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: The Edge of Knife

Messermeister took an age-old tool and made it better.

June 22, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: Waffles, Not Neckties

On Father’s Day, a simple old-fashioned favorite might make him happy.

June 15, 2023

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Last-Minute (mostly) Father’s Day Gifts

Celebrate your favorite guy(s).

June 13, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: Summer Hors d’Oeuvres

Nibbles for entertaining. One treat needs no cooking at all.

June 8, 2023

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Late Dates #16: Gray Divorce and Adult Children

The pitfalls of a late-in-life remarriage.

June 7, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: Tarte Tropézienne

Brigitte Bardot is 88, but her favorite dessert never gets old.

June 1, 2023

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More About Martha!

We laughed, we cried, we shouted . . . Why!?!?

May 26, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: Misadventures in A5

By Wagyu beef obsessed. And, finally, satisfied.

May 25, 2023

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Tina: Simply the Best

Remembering the queen of rock ‘n roll.

May 24, 2023

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Late Dates #15: Boundaries

Learning a new way of relating.

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Kitchen Detail: In Praise of Polpo

A Venetian cookbook offers bar-hopping at its tastiest.

May 18, 2023

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Mother’s Day Questions and Answers

Or is it answers and questions?

May 13, 2023

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Mother of None

Are there consequences for not having children?

May 11, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: Women in the Kitchen

Female chefs still find commercial kitchens a hotbed of sexism.

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Making a Better Man

On a visit to see her daughter’s family, Grace reflects on how mothers can rewrite the future.

May 10, 2023

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Kitchen Detail: In Vino Veritas?

Looking back on two tales of wine skulduggery that inspired a book and a movie.

May 4, 2023

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