Jacques Pepin, one of my all-time favorite chefs, is turning ninety this month. His skills would be almost intimidating if he wasn't such a nice person and so down to earth. He can cut up a chicken in thirty seconds and he'll show the rest of us how to do it too. Maybe it'll take … Continue reading Cooking With (Another) French Chef: Three Favorite Jacques Pepin Recipes
Seven Years Later
Taking Up Room is seven years old...zoikes, that's scary. I can't believe how much time has gone by already and how much has happened in the past year. Does anyone else think 2022 felt like a long year? Yet here we are in December, and WordPress very kindly sent me this: Some of you later … Continue reading Seven Years Later
And Now We Are Six
And here we are again. Hard to believe, isn't it? 2021 has gone by in a blur. To be honest, I wasn't sure what to do with this post because six is one of those underrated numbers when it comes to anniversaries, maybe because we humans like marking milestones in intervals of five and ten. … Continue reading And Now We Are Six
Taking Up Room 