Back In the Saddle ...

With beef bourguignon, Michael Pollan, Jacques's 90th (!), egg foo young, chocolate chip cookies, a classic cocktail refined, best things we've watched, book recommendation, and rabbit hole links ...

A recent beef Bourguignon.

I’m so happy to be back here! As noted a month ago, I needed time to get my NYU class off the ground and, most urgently, hit a book deadline.

Wednesday, I turned in the manuscript of my second Young Adult novel called A Taste of Somewhere Else. In it, a 16-year-old boy, whose mother has died, returns to Cleveland to live with hi…