Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie and the Eve of Thirty

In Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevky’s young headstrong character has this to say: “Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and […]

Caramelized Onion Pizza

A fable on onions from The Brother’s Karamo­zov by Fyo­dor Dostoyevsky, the translation by Constance Garnett: “You see, Alyosha,” Grushenka turned to him with a ner­vous laugh. “I was boast­ing when I told Rak­itin I had given away an onion, but it’s not to boast I tell you about it. It’s only a story, but it’s a […]