Cherry Vodka
July 17, 2024
I realize we’re nearing the end of cherry season, but this cherry vodka is so easy to make that I want to get it under the wire. The recipe comes from Darra Goldstein’s marvelous Beyond The North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore. — This recipe calls for cherry pits…
Laurie Colwin’s Boiled Beef
March 16, 2022
Last week, between bouts of doomscrolling, I remembered Laurie Colwin’s essay about boiled beef. The best boiled beef I ever ate was at the Ukrainian Restaurant at the Ukrainian National Home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I would gladly go out in a violent storm and walk over…