According to Kristen Miglore, author of Genius Desserts, when Francois Payard opened his first patisserie in Manhattan in 1997, he didn’t want to compete with the American chocolate chip or the snickerdoodle so he based his signature cookie off a French macaroon. These scrumptious cookies with a thin, crackly shell cave to a fudge-brownie middle […]
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Saturday night we had a small, intimate Christmas dinner party, and like all dinner parties, it was an all-day preparation event. The morning began like most Saturdays do, with early morning coffee and quiet time, reflecting on and giving thanks for this wonderful life that we have been privileged to live. Then followed the division
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I stared in astonishment at the photograph my elderly aunt had recently produced for me from her collection of family photos. The 18-year old woman gazing back at me projected confidence and strength, and bore an uncanny physical resemblance in some of her features to me. The photograph itself, taken in 1912, is 107 years
