Carrot Ginger Soup Take as many carrots as you can in two hands, take their hats and coats off and put them into a nice bath of cold water, turn up the heat and…

                Have you ever been to Fauchon in Paris? The first time I went to Fauchon’s was over twenty years ago. At that time it was the fore runner of designer grocery shopping. Where the…

The end of the year. The last day of 2007. The eve of new beginning. What are your New Year promises? Is it fair of me to ask you since I do not know what mine will be! Some of…

When I was nineteen I went to live in a Benedictine Monastery in New Mexico. As the monastery was semi cloistered each community member was assigned a task to do when they arrived to help maintain the monastery and partake…

                                Vegetable soup: One onion, two turnips, a bunch of carrots, two leeks, a few collard leaves, one potato, the heart of the celery, two cups of white wine (one to drink and one…

                Layers of sinful heaven, shared by two, taste better. What is your downfall? Photo: Trio of chocolate on a thin meringue crust, sits happily on a flow blue antique dessert plate.