I ate chicken parmesan every night for almost nine years.

This vacation I intended to solve a mystery. I was on Mount Desert Island in Maine for two weeks. Having fled New York City—the meetings and traffic and humidity—I didn’t want anything to do with fancy restaurants or charity cocktail parties. I was looking for old-fashioned fun, maybe even a little adventure. On one of […]

When braised beef shank tastes good enough, it an be both the appetizer and the main course.