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FRESH FROM CANNES

FRESH FROM CANNES

TARTE AU CITRON CROUSTILLANT, recipe by Randall Price Aristophanes said that all dramatic stories stem from a seven basic plots. Or was it Sophocles or Aristotle? Some great dead Greek philosopher, anyway. A British writer pretended he discovered this truth..
THE PEPPER EFFECT

THE PEPPER EFFECT

This is an easy one, at least in that it has only three ingredients: peppers, Feta cheese, and olive oil. The Cannes Festival is a bit like a cruise on a ship that goes no where. There are all-you-can-eat buffets..
IN PRAISE OF THE WORTHY RHUBARB

IN PRAISE OF THE WORTHY RHUBARB

I read that Marlon Brando ate half his weight in ice cream every day, alone on a rowboat, during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty. Perhaps I made that up, but it would account for his appearance in later..
AN AVOCADO EPIPHANY

AN AVOCADO EPIPHANY

Before I established that I was, in fact as well as spirit, an international bon vivant, I was an Ohioan. Europeans confuse that state with Iowa and Idaho, and I can understand why. At least as far as avocados go...
CHICKEN ROSSELLINI

CHICKEN ROSSELLINI

To show my solidarity with the beleaguered flat-shoe wearing protestors against the tyranny of the high heel policy for the Cannes red carpet, I am making very flat food today. For two decades ‘tall’ food has been popular, mostly with..
STROMBOLI !

STROMBOLI !

In Cannes, what’s not about film or sales is about pizza. If we are not at a cocktail party on a yacht or nibbling in a nightclub or grazing at a buffet at a hotel, we are at a pizzeria...