The video on John Denver really hit me as I remember words to several of his songs. I do not need Buzz Feed to tell me I am old. I recognized everything in that piece. When my 48 year old daughter was about 3 or 4, her Omi lived with us. I remember one evening marching and clapping with my daughter to Thank God I’m a Country Boy. We marched around her Omi’s bedroom laughing and singing and Omi loved it and covered her mouth cause she had taken her teeth out already. Today, in the throws of my reaction to the Moderna bivalent booster I got yesterday, the tears flowed freely as I realized how much time had passed with Omi long gone and how much I loved John Denver’s songs.
I love your newsletter. As a New Yorker living in Hawaii, I appreciate all the city references. Not much into duck, but Love Diane Arbus and I ordered a Nagano knife. Thanks so much.
I enjoyed reading that thank you. I see you spoke to someone pulled out about using chicken fat. But what about using actual chicken legs? Can you confit chicken legs?
As always filled with Brilliance. One of The Best. Thank you! I got the knives BTW a while back when you were offering a discount. Just bought the Nakano triple sharpener chef knife bundle.. Kept the sharpener and gifted the knife to a young burgeoning chef to fill out her equip. Thank you for all the info you offer. Big Fan.
Michael, so good to have your back. In addition to cooking, thanks for some interesting insights, especially the John Denver morbituary - I still search for your great Le Creuset videos
Longtime fan of both of you. I love this newsletter. Thanks for the duck recipes. I consider myself a fairly proficient cook but have never prepared duck. Now I'll know how to do it if I can ever find fresh duck in Central Florida. Love the Arbus comments and photos and the book and flick mentions.
I am very impressed with Michael's Short Measures and hope you will write more literary fiction. You don't often find fiction this marvelous about middle aged people and their problems, romance and sex. I hope you will write more fiction, Michael. Thanks for letting them get away with it in Strong Conspirators.
Ann, I am in the middle of Kitchen Yarns, what a wonderful writer you are, your warmth and love of food and cooking comes through on every
page. Thanks to both of you for your books and this newsletter.
Quick question: have you ever made duck confit with chicken fat? I have a whole lot of that in my fridge. About rabbitholes: went down one by clicking link to NY'er story about Diane Arbus photo of Anderson Cooper. Story was fine but really fun was the NY'er video about a new mother moving into a (presumably Italian) neighborhood in NYC.
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I made duck confit last year using olive oil and it worked a treat. We can't buy duck fat here in Greece except occasionally at Christmas but we have plenty of olive oil. It was delicious.
Almost Heaven, West Virginia became my states theme song! And Rod McKuen! As a college student in the 60s I loved him. I'll have to dig out my old books! Loved the gourds photo. Ahhhh! New York in fall! In spring!
You make me wanna ditch the house in Shaker Heights and get a little apartment in New York and start the next chapter of my life… I won’t but it’s fun to think about. We have duck confit in the fridge, we watched Reboot and loved it and now I’m digging into all your other suggestions
Thank you, Michael and Ann again for a wonderful Saturday morning read. Last fall I had duck confit at a restaurant just outside of Austin Texas. https://www.thebartonhousesalado.com/ It was one of the best things I’ve ever had along with their butternut squash soup with sage butter.
I can’t wait to share the piece about “how to tell if you’re old.” It brought back so many memories. I had the Fisher-Price parking garage and loved taking frozen orange juice out of the tube and watching it flop into the beige Rubbermaid pitcher. We didn’t usually have sweets in the house so having a spoonful of frozen orange juice concentrate was a treat! My kids have it way better than I did.
Duck confit and John Denver. What a dinner party!
The video on John Denver really hit me as I remember words to several of his songs. I do not need Buzz Feed to tell me I am old. I recognized everything in that piece. When my 48 year old daughter was about 3 or 4, her Omi lived with us. I remember one evening marching and clapping with my daughter to Thank God I’m a Country Boy. We marched around her Omi’s bedroom laughing and singing and Omi loved it and covered her mouth cause she had taken her teeth out already. Today, in the throws of my reaction to the Moderna bivalent booster I got yesterday, the tears flowed freely as I realized how much time had passed with Omi long gone and how much I loved John Denver’s songs.
I love your newsletter. As a New Yorker living in Hawaii, I appreciate all the city references. Not much into duck, but Love Diane Arbus and I ordered a Nagano knife. Thanks so much.
I enjoyed reading that thank you. I see you spoke to someone pulled out about using chicken fat. But what about using actual chicken legs? Can you confit chicken legs?
As always filled with Brilliance. One of The Best. Thank you! I got the knives BTW a while back when you were offering a discount. Just bought the Nakano triple sharpener chef knife bundle.. Kept the sharpener and gifted the knife to a young burgeoning chef to fill out her equip. Thank you for all the info you offer. Big Fan.
Michael, so good to have your back. In addition to cooking, thanks for some interesting insights, especially the John Denver morbituary - I still search for your great Le Creuset videos
Thanks for answering so quickly and rase write more fiction.
Hi, Ann and Michael,
Longtime fan of both of you. I love this newsletter. Thanks for the duck recipes. I consider myself a fairly proficient cook but have never prepared duck. Now I'll know how to do it if I can ever find fresh duck in Central Florida. Love the Arbus comments and photos and the book and flick mentions.
I am very impressed with Michael's Short Measures and hope you will write more literary fiction. You don't often find fiction this marvelous about middle aged people and their problems, romance and sex. I hope you will write more fiction, Michael. Thanks for letting them get away with it in Strong Conspirators.
Ann, I am in the middle of Kitchen Yarns, what a wonderful writer you are, your warmth and love of food and cooking comes through on every
page. Thanks to both of you for your books and this newsletter.
Very truly yours,
DeVera
Quick question: have you ever made duck confit with chicken fat? I have a whole lot of that in my fridge. About rabbitholes: went down one by clicking link to NY'er story about Diane Arbus photo of Anderson Cooper. Story was fine but really fun was the NY'er video about a new mother moving into a (presumably Italian) neighborhood in NYC.
I made duck confit last year using olive oil and it worked a treat. We can't buy duck fat here in Greece except occasionally at Christmas but we have plenty of olive oil. It was delicious.
Almost Heaven, West Virginia became my states theme song! And Rod McKuen! As a college student in the 60s I loved him. I'll have to dig out my old books! Loved the gourds photo. Ahhhh! New York in fall! In spring!
You make me wanna ditch the house in Shaker Heights and get a little apartment in New York and start the next chapter of my life… I won’t but it’s fun to think about. We have duck confit in the fridge, we watched Reboot and loved it and now I’m digging into all your other suggestions
Thank you, Michael and Ann again for a wonderful Saturday morning read. Last fall I had duck confit at a restaurant just outside of Austin Texas. https://www.thebartonhousesalado.com/ It was one of the best things I’ve ever had along with their butternut squash soup with sage butter.
I can’t wait to share the piece about “how to tell if you’re old.” It brought back so many memories. I had the Fisher-Price parking garage and loved taking frozen orange juice out of the tube and watching it flop into the beige Rubbermaid pitcher. We didn’t usually have sweets in the house so having a spoonful of frozen orange juice concentrate was a treat! My kids have it way better than I did.
Have a great weekend!