Baby Artichokes with Toasted Walnuts

Reading the details of a great meal is for me every bit as exciting as the spicy climax of a juicy spy novel. M.F.K. Fisher, Henry James, Honoré de Balzac, or Emile Zola, who uses fifty pages to build up to a goose dinner in L’Assommoir, can have me sitting on the edge of my seat, eagerly anticipating what’s to be served next. In a similar vein, I’ll, remember th