Once upon a time, when my future husband and I had just started dating, he called me one Saturday ...

Traditional shortbread should really be called “several sticks of butter – cookies”. The butter ...

Sure, you could buy that grilling fanatic on your holiday gift list a new smoker or cutting-edge ...

Fresh chanterelles are my favorite mushroom. Sure I enjoy porcini and I certainly wouldn't pass up ...

A week without a trip to the farmers' market is like a week without the sun: it makes me grumpy. I ...

When I first wrote about quinoa two years ago, many of you empathized. You too had gone to a ...

Onions have their place. I wouldn't dream of starting a marinara sauce without sauteed shallots. ...

Dateline 2011:  San Sebastian, Spain – 3 Star Michelin "Arzak"
(Number 8 in the Top Fifty ...

After watching Ludo Lefebvre on Top Chef Masters I knew I wanted try out his food. Around the same ...

When I originally conceived of taking a self-led tour of the LA food trucks with some friends it ...

Spork in San Francisco is my new favorite restaurant. Pat and I went there for dinner after a ...

Just a year ago, Barbara Hebert and I were sitting on her stoop in what passes for early spring in ...

Who knew that making waffles could be so fraught with symbolism and stress?  As a single woman, ...

When I was growing up, my favorite grown-up restaurant was SCANDIA in Hollywood.  Run by Ken ...

A few weeks back, Patricia and I made this angel food cake which was delicious. It also left me ...

Two weeks residing in an eighteenth-century Provencal farmhouse owned by a world-renown cookbook ...

Would you be inclined to buy a cookbook devoted to burgers, fondue or toast? I wouldn't. None of ...

I sometimes buy books for their title alone. Like a perfect haiku, a perfect title conveys ...