Lamb is good in the Hudson Valley, and this recipe is as much about method as it is about what we’re cooking today, which is lamb chops. I sometimes read cookbooks and in the middle of winter, I was regretting that I had no means for an outdoor grilled piece of meat, [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Remember those Degas paintings of the ballet dancers? Here is a similar figure study, in muted color, but in this instance made of words, not pigment. As this poem by David Tucker closes, I can feel myself holding my breath as if to help the dancer hold her position.
The [...]
On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land celebrates Memorial Day and the peony, Amenia horse expert Cari Swanson marvels at the advances in horse medicine, Alex Tuller sautes duck breasts with a little sage, Dean Temple reads Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Panther,” and we have “The List” from Ilana Papele of events too great [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the June 1, 2006 podcast)
 Wash and dry duck breasts. Score the skin sied and season with salt and pepper and place several whole sage leaves on top. Warm a saute pan over medium heat for a minute or two and add the breasts skin side down. Cook [...]
Im Jardin des Plantes, Paris
Sein Blick ist vom Vorübergehn der Stäbe
so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält.
Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe
und hinter tausend Stäben keine Welt.
Der weiche Gang geschmeidig starker Schritte,
der sich im allerkleinsten Kreise dreht,
ist wie ein Tanz von Kraft um eine Mitte,
in der betäubt ein großer Wille steht
Nur manchmal [...]