Eating My Words
My First Chilled Tomato Soup of 2016 Ripe beefsteak tomatoes have finally arrived on the east end of Long Island. They are about a week or two behind local cherry tomatoes and it’s great to have the whole tomato family around to cook (and not…
A Midsummer Night’s Cooking in the Hamptons This is my 25th season of cooking in the Hamptons during the summer. The first 23 seasons were spent in restaurant kitchens (The 1770 House, Della Femina, and cittanuova for the most part) and the last two have…
Today is the first day of summer and it is also the start of my 25th summer season of cooking in the Hamptons. My first summer of cooking on the east end of Long Island was in 1992 with the opening of Della Femina restaurant in…
Update: I have been inundated with requests for events for the summer of 2016. I am currently booked until early October 2016. The summer will be here before we know it and that means people should start thinking about booking their parties for the coming…
