Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.
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I’m so delighted to have just bought a new cookbook. When I first moved to New York in 2003, as my only reader will know, I got a job working at a Soho coffee shop called Once Upon a Tart. Owned by a tall Frenchman given to double entendres, Once Upon a Tart kept me [...]
Thursday evening, 8:25 p.m. A’s beau came up from Virginia for the weekend. He is a good guest. Being a good guest is an underrated, or under-discussed, art in itself. On the table: beer cocktails, in this case Guinness with cassis lambic. Not sure it was a brilliant combination, but it’s fun to sit around [...]
Tapioca grosses a lot of people out. There are many who’ve never even tried it. Yes, it’s the same shape as that fish-bait-smelling fish roe that you get at sushi restaurants sometimes if you’re not careful. But it’s pretty benign, just round and chewy. Suspended in a creamy, delicately vanilla-flavored pudding base, I like it [...]
Quotidian lunch, extraordinary gadget: still life with broccoli, sardine toasts, New Yorker, and brand new iPhone.
I know five people who live in a house in West Philadelphia. One of them, I’ve known for a really long time. He told me, on behalf of all the people, that I could come down and stay in their spare room for a few days and check Philadelphia out. The house looks out over [...]
How I’m getting through what’s left of winter: Weeknight Coq Au Vin (There’s a chicken thigh hiding in there) six pieces of chicken (I used legs and thighs), bones in and skin on one-third bottle red wine one package of mushrooms, cremini or white one medium to large onion third to half a (small) can [...]
Cabbage With Apples ~adapted from How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman 2 tablespoons butter one small/medium green cabbage two apples dash of cloves half a cup of stock or white wine a teaspoon of cherry jam s & p fresh lemon juice Chop the cabbage and the apples into pieces that you like. Melt [...]
Weeknight dessert fantasia. Plum Crumble 1.25 cups rolled oats .75 cups brown sugar (packed) .5 cups all purpose flour 1 stick o’ butter 2 lbs. plums scant 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1. Mix the flour and oats in a bowl with half of the brown sugar. Add the butter, and rub [...]
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