Tag: Washington

• Book Review: Love & Saffron by Kim Fay

  If books were people, and if Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin married 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, and if those two book-people had a baby, it would be Love & Saffron by Kim Fay, and that baby’s godmother would be Ruth Reichl.  I devoured this book in one day. Granted I was in…

  michardillo

  April 19, 2022

  Essay

  cooking, epistolary, food, historical fiction, Kim Fay, Los Angeles, Mexico, Spanish, Washington, writing

• Comfort Food, or a Meal for Comfort?

  I was born and raised in southeast Louisiana. I didn’t go far for college, only 100 miles, and after graduation I stayed in my college town until I moved to the Washington, DC, area in early 1988. Thus, for over thirty years, I ate, drank, and lived the life of a true member of “GRITS”,…

  michardillo

  August 2, 2015

  Essay

  Bethesda, brownies, chicken, chocolate, comfort food, DC, Dorothy, Fire King Tulip Mixing Bowl, GRITS, Gumbo, Hurricane Katrina, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, potato salad, sausage, southern traditions, Toto, Washington