Are French Fries Old Hat?

Had dinner at Michael White’s new steakhouse, Costata the other night. The food was astonishingly good: lots of raw seafood to start (I was especially taken with the sardines), a revelatory spaghetti con vongole, and a gorgeously marbled rib eye with the longest bone I’ve ever seen. But what really blew me away were the potatoes: small whole ones that...

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Ruth Reichl's first journey into the book publishing world, this out of print cookbook of the senses speaks to a moment frozen in time. Now rediscover updated favorites from this well loved classic.