Evenings With Peter

I was in high school the first time I visited Manhattan, circa ’85, having only previously dreamt of the city through the lens of Cole Porte...

I was ten years old when I first saw The Spy Who Loved Me in theaters. I was obsessed with the title song by Carly Simon, bought the album a...

If you can decipher my besmeared and bespattered print-out, you can see I first came upon Martha Stewart’s recipe for crab cakes in 2000. I ...

I picked up Larry McMurtry’s  Lonesome Dove after having read Virginia Evans’ fantastic epistolary novel The Correspondent , where a fictio...

It could well be that marmalade was created by one of the nurses attending Mary, Queen of Scots when her lady fell ill. The nurse is purport...

                                                        Art by Pete While I ’ m on vacation, enjoy these dishes that have become my must-mak...

  Today I present another adventure in Freezer Diving! And it’s a good one. I found duck breasts in our freezer along with a bag of frozen p...