06355 | July 21, 2007
D.N. ad infinitum
Dorothy Norman
1931 gelatin silver print 11.6 x 9.0 cm.
ex-collection Georgia O'Keeffe
GEH NEG: 37390 74:0052:0094
paperback favorites
All my books for the past year come from the table in the front of a Barnes & Noble.
pickles à la minute
Grub Street at NY Mag has a great section called The Annotated Dish. This week's feature on Le Bernardin’s surf and turf (Kobe steak and grilled escolar), includes a Kimchee à la minute which is a single leaf of Napa cabbage marinated in korean barbeque sauce. I love to quick pickle things, and my latest experiments involve both baby cucumbers and Napa cabbage. Here's the process, which is the same for whatever you'd like to pickle, as long as it has a relatively high water content (so it can equilibrate with the salinity of the pickling liquid . . . or something like that):
1. wash your vegetables in cold water, and put them in a Mason jar
2. cover them with cold water
3. add some white vinegar (or for a more subtle flavor, use rice wine vinegar); it's hard to know how much to add, and it's up to your taste, but if ~5% of the total volume of the liquid is vinegar, that's probably a good start.
4. Add a couple large tablespoons of salt.
5. Cut a few very thin slices of garlic, ginger, and red onion, and add these.
6. Add a teaspoon of fresh lemon juice.
7. Tast the liquid at this point; dilute it if it's too salty or vinegary, or add more of whatever you think is missing.
8. Invert it a few times to mix everything, and place in the refrigerator.
You can eat these a soon as after a few hours, and it only gets better with time. After about a week or more there will be a special tanginess which will remind your palate how fresh and "à la minute" these pickles are.
['pit.tsa]
My search for good pizza outside NYC begins. Here is the "Oliver's" pizza I got at Todd English's Fig's in Beacon Hill tonight. It was nice and thin, with a good chewy texture to the dough, nicely charred in spots from the wood burning oven.
Red Hook | June 9 2007
Is this where all my classmates from Dartmouth went when they said they were going into consulting? Were would the world be without them?
objet trouvé
Sometimes art can be found in unexpected places. Here is a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi in an otherwise featureless corner of Mount Sinai Hospital.
You can visit the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City near P.S. 1.
something good comes from Kid A?
Could this be one of Radiohead's best and most overlooked songs ever? or is this just the endgame of my (still) trying to find something transcendental and worthwhile about the album?
super simple pasta
pasta with sage and brown butter
1. rough cut a handful of sage and some garlic
2. boil some spaghetti (or some bucatini if you can find it) until al dente
3. heat a couple tablespoons of good butter in a shallow pan until it starts to brown; wilt the sage and garlic in the butter for a minute or two
4. transfer the pasta (with some of the pasta water still clinging to it) into the pan with the butter and sage; toss this around for a minute; loosen it if it's too dry with a couple spoonfuls of the pasta water
5. add some fresh black pepper
6. top with parmesan just before removing to a plate
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