I don’t want to lose weight, stand in line at the gym, or make short-lived resolutions for 2014 - I ...
On vacation for a week in Carlsbad, we enjoyed days without a set schedule. When to get out of bed? ...
After the Great Sprinkler Disaster of ’13, which drove our guests, sopping wet, to their cars, ...
From the LA Times
Kale is about as unlikely a food star as you can imagine. It's tough and fibrous. ...
Everyone knows green asparagus—it's making an appearance right now in the markets, announcing that ...
The cook's year can be divided in two: tomato and not-tomato. But sometimes, even the ...
This may just be the perfect breakfast bread.
It's a tweaked version of Dorie Greenspan's (Baking: ...
(Roasted peppers in hot anchovy sauce)
This antipasto dish is heaven; this is the mother-lode; I ...
1 1-ounce package dried porcini mushrooms
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 large shallots, finely chopped
This recipe comes from my friend Chris at Valley Produce Company in Victoria. I’ll save the ...
4 pounds sweet potatoes (about 8 medium)
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup maple ...
It really is the best kind – but to modernize it a bit, use small organic red potatoes, cut at ...
8 tomatoes (not over-ripe). Core and cut in half, right down the center, not through the core.
People who don't live in Southern California forget that in the winter, the temperatures can drop ...
Houston, it seems, has as many nicknames as it does oil wells, but the one that touches my Texas ...
One thing I sadly miss living on the west coast of the USA are the Atlantic sea offerings in all ...
OK fine. I'll admit it. I'm the person who studies the menu online before going out to eat. I ...
On December 24th, 1963, Philadelphia was hit with a rip-roaring blizzard. I’ll never forget it. ...
Ever since reading Rousseau’s On the Origin of Language, the idea of the origin myth has compelled ...
My mother’s name is Gladys, and the name just doesn’t fit her.
She’s felt that way all her life. ...
Growing up my mom used to make stuffed cabbage, what felt like, all the time. I wasnt’ really into ...
I had a completely fabulous mother. She was a pretty good cook, except that she was always so ...
On her last visit, my mother brought over a box of things that she’d saved over the course of my ...
Mother’s Day was always a meaningful day in my life, but not because of my own mother. Because of ...
I have been thinking about all the recipes of everyone I know and it is so funny and interesting ...
Right up front let’s just say Death Valley is not a destination trip for foodies. Don’t fool ...
This summer marks my thirtieth year as an attorney. But when I think back to the summer of 1978 it ...
This is an excerpt from the book "Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories"
We had ...