His latest, AD HOC AT HOME: Family-Style Recipes (Artisan, $50), written with Dave Cruz, Susie Heller, Michael Ruhlman and Amy Vogler, serves up cozy dishes from his "casual" restaurant, Ad Hoc, a set-menu, elbows-on-the-table spot in Yountville, Calif., where the meatballs and fried chicken are inarguably better than your mother's.
He points out that life in soil is much more complicated than life in a cozy petri dish.
The signature dish of this cozy restaurant by the harbor is stockfish stew, in a tomato base with thinly sliced potatoes and plump, juicy olives.
Mr. Refslund cooks intuitively, by look and feel and perhaps by mood, but in three meals this dish was always cozy and comforting, with a sophisticated sense of balance.
Al Covo | The owners Cesare Benelli and Diane Rankin have been serving traditional pastas and fish dishes in their cozy restaurant since 1987.
Where to Eat The restaurant 208 Talbot, at 208 North Talbot Street, (410) 745-3838, serves well-prepared regional dishes in a cozy, candlelit setting.
Tables are generously spaced and booths provide a cozy enclave to enjoy decadent dishes like seared foie gras with huckleberry and barrel-aged cider.
The same cozy good times can be seen on "Dish It Up! Italian Style Christmas Special With Stanley Tucci" (tomorrow at 7 30 p.m. on Channel 21).
That signature dish from Craft finds a cozy place on an Italian-accented menu alongside appetizers like octopus braised in red wine and entrees like duck pappardelle with cured olives, red wine and rosemary.
Eleanor Roosevelt's bedroom, with its simple white coverlets, in her cozy cottage, Val-Kill, stands in contrast to a silver serving dish, its rich patina rippling with light.
