#amanda hesser

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in May:

1). Charming Billy (Alice McDermott)

2). The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (Julie Phillips)

3). The Dressmaker (Beryl Bainbridge)

4). The Pleasing Hour (Lily King)

5). Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table (ed. Amanda Hesser)

6). The Mirror & the Light (Hilary Mantel)

7). Disappearing Earth (Julia Phillips)

8). A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again (Joanna Biggs)

9). Kitchen Bliss: Musings on Food and Happiness (Laura Calder)

10). A Month in the Country (J.L. Carr)

11). Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal (Andreas Viestad)

12). Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Anne Fadiman)

#my literary life #booklr #book list #writing an absolutely deranged Substack wrap up because that’s how May went #alice mcdermott #julie phillips #beryl bainbridge #lily king #amanda hesser #hilary mantel #laura calder #julia phillips #joanna biggs #j.l. carr #andreas viestad #anne fadiman #adult booklr

[magsinhiding]

Also did anyone see this post from Amanda Hesser? I wish I knew someone in the nyc food world who could give me all the dirt. I could not imagine staying in a marriage like this, but then of course I’m not in theirs. His behavior must have been an open secret!

#Amanda hesser #I definitely confused her with Melissa Clark

[allwaysfull]

Cooking For Mr. Latte | Amanda Hesser

#cooking for mr. latte #amanda hesser

[lekkerresepte]

The Gifts on Amanda Hesser’s Wish List

http://dlvr.it/Swmsns

[triciansmithdesign]

Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s Favorite Schoolhouse Products http://dlvr.it/StfNHM

[actu24hp]

Hey There, It's Amanda Newsletter by Food52's Amanda Hesser: April 14, 2023

I’m just back from skiing and college tours. Conclusion: I love a chewy, over-salted ski lodge French fry, but the rest of the ski food category could use some disruption! Food in Philadelphia: The college tours around Philadelphia allowed me to introduce our kids to a hoagie, and produced some solid restaurant recs: Photo by Amanda Hesser Eeva—for pizza, a wildly good green salad,…

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[hell-yeahfilm]

IN THE EARLY TIMES

Now in his mid-50s, “sliding down the neck of the hourglass,” veteran New Yorker staff writer Friend updates his memoir Cheerful Money by once again examining his childhood and young adulthood, education and aspirations, and reflecting, in intimate detail, on his marriage to food writer Amanda Hesser and parenthood to twins. “You’d think that by now,” he writes, “after years of observation, I’d have a fix on my closest relatives. But fitting your family together begins as a jigsaw puzzle and becomes an anxiety dream.” Complicating the puzzle was his discovery, after his father’s death in 2019, of a trove of letters, journals, ruminations, and verses, including a file titled “Annals of Carnality 1948-58,” which revealed someone far different from the emotionally distant father who, Friend writes, “hugged me until I was about seven. Then he stopped.” The man who emerged from these pieces was “curious, generous, errant, sensitive, bighearted.” He admitted to several affairs and was tormented by unfulfilled ambition. “Starved of affection,” his father had written, “I grew hungry for honor.” An award-winning historian who had served as president of Swarthmore College, he never achieved the fame he sought in the public arena, and though he loved his wife, he craved passion. Friend fears emulating his father even though he hopes that years of therapy enabled him to “become exquisitely sensitive and self-aware, and surpass him.” Certainly he surpassed his father in betrayal: A yearslong “litany of infidelities” threatened his marriage. Fatherhood is a major cause of anxiety, as well. His twins—wise, witty, and precociously articulate—feature in many anecdotes. But Friend cannot help but worry, “Is the father I wanted the father they want, too? Or is the father I got the father I’ve inevitably become?” Mostly engaging, the narrative at times seems self-serving despite the author’s efforts at candor.

from Kirkus Reviews https://ift.tt/hpN1nXf

[what-marsha-eats]

Brown-Butter 🍅s

#food videos #food52 #amanda hesser #how to video #cooking video #summer food #brown butter #slicing tomato #quick food #quick snack #vegetarian

[allwayshungry]

Amanda Hesser’s Peach Tart (Makes an 11″ Tart)

Prep: 20 minutes

Cook: 35 minutes

Serves: 8

Ingredients

1½ cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

¾ teaspoon kosher salt

¾ cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar

¼ cup vegetable or canola oil

¼ cup mild olive oil

2 tablespoons whole milk

½ teaspoon almond extract

2 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter

3 small ripe peaches (up to 5), pitted and thickly sliced (about ½” wide)

Directions

Heat the oven to 425º. 

In a mixing bowl, stir together 1½ cups flour, ½ tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar. Stirring enables the salt and sugar to sift the flour, so you don’t need to sift it.

In a small bowl, whisk together the oils, milk and almond extract. Pour this mixture into the flour mixture and mix gently with a fork, just enough to dampen; do not overwork it. 

Transfer dough to an 11″ tart pan (you can use a smaller one if needed), and use your hands to pat out the dough so it covers the bottom of the pan, pushing it up the sides to meet the edge. This will work if you pat firmly and confidently, but not if you curl your fingertips into the dough. It should be about 1/ 8-inch thick all around; trim and discard excess dough.

In a bowl, combine ¾ cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, ¼ tsp salt, and the butter. (If your peaches are especially juicy, add 1 tablespoon additional flour.) Using your fingers, pinch the butter into the dry ingredients until crumbly, with a mixture of fine granules and tiny pebbles.

Starting on the outside, arrange the peaches overlapping in a concentric circle over the pastry; fill in the center in whatever pattern makes sense. The peaches should fit snugly. 

Sprinkle the pebbly butter mixture over top (it will seem like a lot). 

Bake for 35 to 45 minutes, until shiny, thick bubbles begin enveloping the fruit and the crust is slightly brown. Cool on a rack. 

Serve warm or room temperature, preferably with generous dollops of whipped cream.

#amanda hesser #peach tart #easy tart #peach #tart #food52 #food 52

[bookmama]

Happy Pub Day to this big beautiful cookbook!!!!!!

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Thank you to @w.w.norton and @amandahesser for this gifted review copy of The Essential New York Times Cookbook: The Recipes Of Record! After ten years a new revised edition of this cookbook is being released with 120 new recipes added. This books literally has more than a thousand easy to follow delicious recipes. So many recipes and with such a wide variety to chose from you could literally just open the book to a random page and let fate decide “what’s for dinner?”. Which is exactly what we did! Swipe to see a picture of Pamela Sherrid’s Summer Pasta. This was so easy and delicious, and a perfect meal for those early Fall evenings that are still holding on to the warmth of Summer!

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There are so many things to love about this cookbook, including the detailed serving suggestions that accompany each recipe, the tips and tricks included in the cooking notes, and the stories attached to many recipes.

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If ever you wanted an ultimate reference cookbook that could lead you through just about any type of cuisine imaginable, this would be it. I can’t wait to continue cooking my way through this cookbook after we get through our move.

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QOTD: what dish have you always wanted to make yourself, but haven’t tried yet?

#Amanda Hesser #cookbook #bookstagram #book photography #New York times #the essential New York Times cookbook #recipes of record #happy pub day

[weissnatmelodylev]

No matter what the day throws your way, remember one thing: there’s always dinner,...

#Fod52 #CEO #Amanda #Hesser #Has #Some #Tips #for #Quarantine #Cooking

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

My 2 favourite gifts of the year. Wooden avocet from my dad and a new version of my favourite cookbook of all time from Ben (also I hope I make it clear that I don’t read the New York Times, they just have an incredibly fascinating archive of recipes and the way that Amanda Hesser explores those recipes in this book is captivating — I can read this cookbook like a novel and have done so with the original edition on 3 separate occasions, weirdly don’t make many recipes from it because they feel so special I just like reading them)

[allwaysfull]

The Essential New York Times Cookbook (Revised) | Amanda Hesser

#nyt #new york times #essential new york times cookbook #amanda hesser #nyt cookbook

[lekkerresepte]

Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s Favorite Schoolhouse Products

http://dlvr.it/StfQxZ

[sutrala]

Amanda Hesser’s Very Best Tips for an Organized Kitchen http://dlvr.it/RfhQYT https://Sutra.la

#Home52 #Cleaning #Organizing #Kitchen Design

[arojenniferwalters]

Julie & Julia (2009) [rewatch 13.7.2019]d&w Nora Ephron (books by Julia Powell & Julie Child)

Julie Powell: [about Julia] I have conversations with her while I’m cooking. And I feel like she is there with me in the kitchen.

Amanda Hesser: She’s like your imaginary friend.

Julie Powell: [grins] Yes.

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Eric Powell: [about Julia] Look, there’s something wrong with her if she doesn’t get what you’re doing.

Julie Powell: There’s nothing wrong with her. Nothing. I spent a year with her. She’s perfect.

Eric Powell: The Julia Child in your head is perfect. The Julia Child that doesn’t understand what you’re doing is not perfect. The one in your head is the one that matters.

#julie and julia #nora ephron #amy adams #meryl streep #films by women #nocticola art #pics from google