Three Things
A five-ingredient dinner, soup for my mom, book news
Greetings eaters and readers. Hope you had a nice weekend. My friend Lygeia and I had an A-plus New York mini-date last Saturday: Dumplings in Chinatown at Deluxe Green Bo, followed by a quick visit to the Nick Cave exhibit at the Jack Shainman Gallery, an intense and dramatic show anchored on three enormous bronze statues. The gallery itself, the new one in Tribeca, with its soaring marble columns and Italian Renaissance Revival coffered ceilings, was an essential part of the experience. In other, more on-the-ground news, this Thursday, March 13, at 4 p.m. ET, as part of a ”Live Video Food Festival,” on Substack I’ll be co-hosting a live event with Christina Chaey, who writes the wonderfully compassionate newsletter Gentle Foods. We’ll be talking about our careers, our approach to food writing, our most popular recipes, and whatever else comes up. The chat is for everyone, whether you have a paid subscription or not, but you’ll need to download the Substack app to join. (When you ena…