What I am working on

is a recipe for a favorite simple supper. With photos. The trouble is, I never measure when I make this. It is definitely a by-the-seat-of-pants kind of thing, and when a recipe finally materializes, it should be considered a guide with room for wild manipulations. Last night, I made some progress toward quantifying ingredients. The photos were a dismal failure, though. Daylight is required.

Le Fooding

Found via Bitten blog: Adam Gopnik's New Yorker article on the the French "Fooding" movement.

Tasting Chocolate

Clotilde Dusoulier, of Chocolate & Zucchini, has posted a lesson -- gleaned from Valrhona's sensory analysis expert -- in tasting chocolate.