Excellent morning. “I never question that the greatest food salad of all time, the chef salad, was developed by a chef,” Gabrielle Hamilton wrote for The New York Situations Magazine this week. “The mixture of textures and flavors is consummately specialist. From time to time men and women slip-up the salad bowl for a lawless area of disorganized and mismatched components, chopped up and thrown in — dried cranberries on top rated of pumpkin seeds on top of soggy corn — which offends even me, who stakes no strong assert to her chef bona fides. A salad nevertheless involves a bit of cheffing, a minor expert interest paid to balance, texture and restraint. Not anything preferences much better with bacon bits scattered on prime.”
Accompanying the posting is her recipe for a sous-chef salad (above), a consider on a vintage French salade composée, with elements both of those cooked and uncooked. It’s like a steroidal niçoise, and I feel it should to be your evening meal on Saturday night.
At least if you consume tuna, that is. All those wanting for a vegetarian meal may well switch instead to this chilly tofu salad with tomatoes, peaches, basil and mint, impressed by Italian caprese and Japanese hiyayakko, and my new beloved way to eat uncooked, chilled silken tofu. Or attempt this Indonesian tempe penyet, pan-fried smashed tempeh soaked with a garlicky tomato, shallot and chile sambal. Oh, my!
Other items to cook this weekend: a Roman breakfast cake for Sunday when you come up, to take in with cold-brewed ice espresso and milk pan con tomate for lunch a coconut-miso salmon curry for dinner.
Now, you’d have to travel a lengthy way over tough terrain to make it anything to do with foods, but I believe you may well love Wyatt Mason on the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, in Harper’s Magazine.
Here’s Jason Guriel on searching and the pleasures of lifetime outside the algorithm, in The Walrus.
For Outside, Tim Neville wrote a beautiful appreciation of the Delmarva Peninsula, which among other factors is crammed with terrific place names: Wetipquin, Tony Tank, Pocomoke, Bivalve.
Ultimately, here’s Doja Cat and the Weeknd, “You Correct.” That and a chef salad? Have a excellent weekend. I’ll see you on Sunday.