Category Archives: Recipes

In Good Taste: Should we wear a scarlet ‘NY’ on our forehead?

TWISTED EGGS BENEDICT with smoked salmon. By DAWN LaROCHELLE When you’re a newly-minted college freshman, you get asked the same three questions over and over again: (1) “what’s your name?” (2) “what’s your major?” and (3) “where are you from?” … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: Sticking your neck out

TOFFEE TURTLE BARS By DAWN LaROCHELLE When you have three baseball-obsessed sons, you learn a lot about pre-game superstitions and rituals. Don’t step on the foul line coming on and off the field. Tap the bat on the plate before … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: Got any real bread for this peanut butter?

By DAWN LaROCHELLE There is nothing quite so humbling as having your six-year-old son march into your Zagat-rated restaurant, through a crowded dining room, with a jar of peanut butter and loudly demand to know if there is any “real” … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: Where can I get a good egg cream?

IN BROOKLYN IN THE ’50s “a candy store minus an egg cream…was as difficult to conceive as the Earth without gravity.” (Photo by Greg Nesbit) By DAWN LaROCHELLE Rabbi Mat, my spiritual mentor and my sons’ sondek, has told me … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: A simple, elegant and delicious Mother’s Day entrée

MISO-MARINATED GRILLED SALMON WITH WASABI BUTTER (Photo by Gregory Nesbit) “What would one know of life as it should be lived or nights as they should be spent apart from meals?” –James and Kay Salter, Life is Meals: A Food … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: Thinking outside the (lunch) box

Photo courtesy of Greg Nesbit HUMMUS SUNFLOWER. This is one of the author’s favorite standards at catered events, at her restaurant and as an alternative to pizza, hot dogs and chips at kids’ parties. By DAWN LaROCHELLE Parenting is a … Continue reading

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