Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'Bouchon'
The Great Cookbook Purge of 2009
Nobody likes moving. It's a daunting process: first you have to find boxes, then you have to find packing tape, then you have to put all your stuff in the boxes and then you run out of packing tape and then you find you have more stuff and you need more boxes, etc, etc. It sucks. Which is why, a few days ago, I found myself staring at my cookbook collection. I was on the couch and there it was, across the room. Six giant Ikea shelves of cookbooks, collected from five and a half years of food blogging. And like a bolt of lightning, a thought singed the inside of my brain: "Do I really need all of these cookbooks? How many do I really use, really?"...
Are there any tomatoes in this heirloom tomato salad?
Hi Bouchon Bakery, how are you? I know we're friends and that I've visited you many times in the past. I love your tuna nicoisse tartine and your roasted tomato soup with grilled cheese and your subtle salad with watercress, apples and blue cheese. But what's the deal with your heirloom tomato salad?...
