To serve, remove the bass from the oil with a few chillies on to some kitchen paper.
IT was the first day of April, overcast and chilly, and Christopher Peacock, the English kitchen designer, was giving a tour of the town that's been so good to him.
These days, a hearty breakfast can be preparation for a day of hiking, a way to entertain friends or simply an excuse to enjoy the warmth of the kitchen on a chilly weekend morning.
But in the long run, this latest refraction of her image could prove more damaging to her reputation than complaints that she is an über-perfectionist who turns chilly and imperious once the kitchen door closes.
Because many of us don't cook with any regularity, contemporary designers have chosen to organize the kitchen around the "hard, chilly lines" of the refrigerator rather than the warmth of the stove, traditional symbol of the hearth.
Brian's 9 Kline's Court Lambertville (609) 460-4148 brianslambertville.com WORTH IT THE SPACE A low-ceiling space accommodating 40, with a wood-fired oven and a semi-open kitchen; the dining room was chilly on my visits.
In the kitchen there was a plate of chillies on the side, which was either pure coincidence or a pretty subtle wisecrack if you get the context.
Then she took a can of lighter fluid and a box of kitchen matches and stepped outside, into our chilly back yard, which was full of leaves needing to be raked.
It looked off-puttingly pale, but some alchemy in the kitchen with mustard seeds, curry leaves and chillies had turned this lentil broth into a transcendent winter warmer.
They drove straight to school, and she has never looked back, despite a chilly first winter with an iffy furnace and an uninsulated kitchen.
