"Taste!" — Not everything has to be perfect to be good

Gemma, Gemma, what do you see?

Hello! Hello!

I’m in NYC getting the all-clear from docs to fly. Also sitting at the desk I’ve worked at for so many years (I wrote Sweet Times, my first cookbook, here), and looking at books that I shelved before search engines replaced The American Heritage Dictionary or the Larousse French-English English-French Dictionary.

Behind me is my wall-long pin-up board with old-old photos and clippings and a couple of “new” ones from just before Joshua and Linling were married 6 years ago this week.