Archive for the 'eating out' Category
A Bad-Good Day
July 19th, 2010by Caroline
When my friend Ursula moved to Portugal for a year and said she had room for us all to come stay, I started looking into airfares. When she started posting pictures of Portuguese pastry on her website, I booked the tickets. She wrote me about her favorite pastry shop in Lisbon, and said we [...]
Lunch with Finn
April 28th, 2010by Lisa
I’m in my last year of having a little one at home (though little is a relative term for my son, who has never been small). Finn attends preschool only 3 mornings a week, I have a sitter for about 5 or 6 more hours, and the rest of the time, we do important [...]
Road Food
February 22nd, 2010by Caroline
There’s nothing like a road trip to create some powerful family food memories. It’s been about forty years, but everyone in my family still remembers our road trip from Tokyo to the mountain village of Nojiri and our stop at a roadside stand for snacks. My oldest brother picked out what he thought was [...]
Picadillo, Let me count the ways…
November 16th, 2009by Lisa
Over labor day weekend, I flew to Los Angeles to visit my friend, Melissa Clark, the novelist (not the food writer). You can read her book about a girl impregnated by a lazy sperm or catch up with her on her blog. Melissa is one of those friends you thank the world for every [...]
Shaking Beef
October 7th, 2009By Lisa
Before I was married, before San Francisco’s Mission district became gentrified and way too hip for me, The Slanted Door on Valencia was someplace I went for lunch. Lunch was affordable back then–even for a grad student of modest means, and you could get in without a reservation. I absolutely knew how good I [...]
Summer Traditions: The Red Rooster
August 23rd, 2009by Caroline
Thirty-seven years ago my family moved back from Japan to the States, to a town eighty miles away from my maternal grandparents, and a tradition was born. Because halfway between my grandparents’ house and the one in which I grew up, in Brewster, New York, stands The Red Rooster, a hamburger and ice cream [...]
Road Trip
August 4th, 2009by Lisa
We decided to drive to San Diego so my husband could attend ComicCon, and once we figured out that it was too late to reserve a camping spot halfway down, we decided to stop in Solvang. For us, if it’s a toss up between a tent and a great deal on a hotel with [...]
The Expedient Picnic
July 14th, 2009by Caroline
Eating with kids is often all about expediency, and so although it was difficult, in Oxford, to set aside my romantic, Evelyn Waugh-inspired visions of country picnics, I have been at this long enough to know that when the kids are hungry, they need to eat. Now.
So we make or purchase nice sandwiches, [...]
Dessert
November 15th, 2008by Caroline
I’m surprised to find I haven’t written about dessert yet in this forum, since I have a lot to say about the subject. And despite how healthy I try to keep my family, we certainly don’t avoid dessert. We’re just as likely to make an afternoon project of making cookies as making paintings, and [...]
Berries, II
September 22nd, 2008posted by Lisa
Caroline’s gorgeous post about berries highlighted one fundamental way that our families are different. We write about the very many ways that our family food cultures overlap in our introduction and some of the ways that we don’t. We thought a lot about cooking and meat and picky eaters. But we didn’t think [...]