The Way We Eat

Off the Menu
By ALEKSANDRA CRAPANZANO
Published: September 5, 2008

Some people know how to live very well. David Tanis certainly does — though it has to be said that he has had the consummate mentor and friend in the improvisational journey of life: Alice Waters. In 2001, when Tanis was in about his 20th year cooking at Waters’s legendary Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, he was vacationing in Paris when a friend told him about a lovely 17th-century apartment for rent in the Fifth Arrondissement. He wasn’t really in the market, but he was already in love with Paris and fell instantly in love with the apartment too. Tanis loved it so much, in fact, that he decided to make his home there. As he explained, “Every time I go traveling, I think, Oh, I think I’ll move here. And sometimes I do.”
Saffron Carrots
Caseless Fennel Sausage
Duck Breast With Baked Figs

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Clean Hands Circa Fourteenth Century

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Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage
By FRANK RICH

SARAH PALIN makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech — longer even than Barack Obama’s — you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum’s rush.

Still, attention must be paid. McCain’s address, though largely a repetitive slew of stump-speech lines and worn G.O.P. orthodoxy, reminded us of what we once liked about the guy: his aspirations to bipartisanship, his heroic service in Vietnam, his twinkle. He took his (often inaccurate) swipes at Obama, but, in winning contrast to Palin and Rudy Giuliani, he wasn’t smug or nasty.

The only problem, of course, is that the entire thing was a sham. More

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