Evenings With Peter

  Barbara ’ s back! Barbara Pym, that is. Having just made the beef bourguinon from The Barbara Pym Cookbook , I happened upon her recipe f...

  I previously posted a recipe for a classic — and heavy — beef bourguinon  here . The French stew is certainly a sumptuous treat, ideal fo...

Cabbage? Or  chou as the French call it? You probably like it or you really don’t.  But behold the Charlotte de Chou! Isn’t she gorgeous? I ...

Sometimes, if I didn’t enjoy a dish at a restaurant that I felt should have been really good, I’m left unsatisfied to the point where I then...

  The luck of the Irish sure seemed to be with me when I happened upon Nigella Lawson ’s gorgeous Chocolate Guinness Cake: I already had mos...

  I love it when an author gives a character a memorable “monkey”—a truly great trait or accessory that provides them with an identifiable s...

Reading Amor Towles’s dazzling novel Rules of Civility felt like being plunged into a tub of Champagne—at once perilous, heady, and delicio...