A soupçon of summer soups
I’ve been thinking about how I cook and why it might be absolutely impossible to make the things I make […]
One man’s “socialism”
My childhood home was a hotbed of the conservative movement. Free-market economist Milton Friedman, who presided over conservative economics from [...]
So totally cool
It's August. The sun has reached its scalding zenith. Days stretch into night. There’s sand in the car. In addition [...]
Breaking the rules
Director Quentin Tarantino, the ultimate rule-breaker, is at it again in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” A kinder, [...]
An uncle’s gift
Yesterday, I got a call informing me my Uncle Tom was seriously ill. He'd suffered a stroke and the prognosis [...]
The last Gandalf
The old ambassador had me at “hoodwinked.” When he added “bamboozled” and “railroaded,” I was in Seventh Heaven, as always [...]
A plague’s lengthy shadow
Our 25-year-old friend Nicolo came to dinner a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly, over pasta, he told my husband Alberto [...]
They Shall Not Grow Old
Young men shown enthusiastically enlisting for the chance to go to war – “I’ve never been so excited in my [...]