Collectages

To end this year here is “December,” a drawing/collage from my Calendar series with a poem by Nicole Brossard. This song will be part of my new CD to be released in spring 2009: “Whisk, don’t Churn!” A Live Recording Nicole Peyrafitte with Michael Bisio Remember, if you are in NYC on New Year’s Day [...]

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Soups are made everywhere in the world with all kinds of ingredients. Many appealing adjectives can describe them: healthy, earthy, cheap, restorative, easy to make, filling, convenient, the list is infinite. First lets clarify some terminology: At the beginning the “soupe” was the bread dunked into the broth. This tradition remains ­– think for example [...]

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Pierre Landet, Executive Chef at Cercle Rouge, featured at The James Beard Foundation On December 15th 2008, I was very honored to be one of the assistant cooks at The James Beard Foundation Cercle Rouge in NYC for a dinner featuring my friend and Gascon mate: Executive Chef Pierre Landet accompanied by Wine Director Dominique [...]

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An announcement from the Poetry Project: Is there a better place to be on New Year’s Day in New York City? Please join the Poetry Project for our benefit, the 35th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading! Ron Padgett will kick us off at 2pm and about 140 performances will lead us into the euphoric [...]

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Les Croquettes de Morue sur un Lit de Verdure Salt-cod cakes served with greens Le Chapon de Noêl aux Marrons Stuffed Christmas Capon with Chestnuts & Les “Racines” d’Hiver Braisées Braised Winter Root Vegetables La Crème Paysanne & Les Pescajous du Luchonnais This is a festive winter dinner menu I made several time. I wrote [...]

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Nymphéas Pour John & Wayne The sun has set too fast today. Can a water lily show me the way? An impression by Claude Monet Let Giverny bridge Albany. Wet paint into wet paint Emphasizes your qualities. The perception of your movements Belongs to les effets de soir. Your blue shadow is a landscape Your [...]

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Join, among many others, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Alice Waters, Anna Lappé, Marion Nestlé in signing asap the petition urging president elect Obama to nominate a Secretary Agriculture that will support a Sustainable Choice. It is very important and urgent because none of the names that are mentioned in The Associated Press contender list 4 [...]

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“Chose promise, chose due”, voilà the cabbage rolls with ginkgo nuts recipe. I have had stuffed cabbage or chou farci in many ways but the *japanese* cabbage roll became one of my favorite versions. I suspect this dish being part of the yoshuku tradition, but I haven’t yet found much info on it, even in [...]

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I am an unconditional fan of both Bill Moyers and Michael Pollan. Good timing for the interview as President Elect Obama is picking the next Agriculture Secretary. AGRICULTURE SECRETARY contenders at this point: by Associated Press Dennis Wolff, Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture. Tom Buis, president of National Farmers Union. Former Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas. Rep. [...]

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“Brassica capitata alba” The culinary & healing possibilities of cabbage are endless, and they are not a new trend! The Greeks and Romans were using cabbage mainly as medicine rather than food. Greek doctors like Hippocrates (who lived circa 460 BC. and is considered the father of medicine ), and Roman doctors like Pliny the [...]

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