Our Stories
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I have a special fondness for pot pie. It's one of those all-in-one meals that always hits my ...
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This is a recipe “re-do” of a long time favorite that’s now a smart weapon in my war against ...
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I hate 3:00 p.m. on a school day. It means I’m a failure. Once again, I’ve failed to come up with ...
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There is much in this world that leads us to believe that as humans, we are superior to other life ...
Fall
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Last weekend I went apple picking with my family at Silverman's Farm in Connecticut. We have been ...
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I’m not a big hunter. My brother-in-law, cousins, uncle and friends make up for my lack of time ...
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This past summer I've grown more arugula than I've known what to do with. This fall the arugula has ...
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Kohlrabi, a vegetable that sounds just as foreign as it is alien to most people, is a ...
Our Recipes
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For the crust:
4 Tablespoons melted butter
2½ cups crushed Oreo cookie crumbsOne 9-inch pie pan ...
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20 cooked peeled shrimp
½ cup chopped cilantro
1 avocado, cubed
Juice of 1 lemon
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1 package prepared roasted beets
4 cups fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
1½ cups uncooked pearl ... -
8 eggs
1 bag frozen hash brown potatoes
4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2 cups cubed cooked ham (or ... -
You’ll find versions of this salad all over the interwebs. This recipe was adapted from Cooks.com. ...
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2 cups gram flour (most commonly called garbanzo bean flour when you see it in the grocery store)
1 ...
Holiday Issues
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The press representative agreed to let me into the Courbet retrospective a day before the preview. ...
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They say you always remember your first. And were we talking about a kiss, I remember sitting on a ...
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When I was a kid, I was pretty much a geek. At nine I started to stutter so badly that the school ...
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On December 24th, 1963, Philadelphia was hit with a rip-roaring blizzard. I’ll never forget it. ...
Restaurant Reviews
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On our recent summer "vacation" to the East Coast, we had one day to ourselves. Blissfully alone, ...
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There’s something about being up at 4:00 a.m. that I feel, gives me permission to go to hell in a ...
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Chef Ricardo Zarate has proven once and again his blossoming creativity of modern cuisine, all ...
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Houston, it seems, has as many nicknames as it does oil wells, but the one that touches my Texas ...
Cookbooks We Love
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I always get excited about cookbooks with a connection to the Bay Area. There are so many things ...
Our Featured Authors
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In 1979 I ate a nectarine that I still think about.
It was August. August 2 to be exact. My ... -
When I am at my home on Orcas Island, Washington and away from the concrete jungle of Los Angeles, ...
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Francois Truffaut has been famously quoted about the process of making a movie being similar to a ...