Whew. That was a time.
I feel like I need to eat strictly vegetables and fruit for the next week to make up for all the — delicious — cheese and pasta I consumed over the past wedding weekend. I’ve missed kiwis. And cauliflower.
I haven’t spent much time in the south (this past [...]

I am probably going to lose my vegan cred here, but this weekend I made a cake that was so buttery, so sour-creamy and full of melted milk chocolate that it made me rethink my whole approach to cakes. Specifically: in the future, they must be light and moist at the same time, [...]

Oh, I dearly love a dinner party — every single facet of it, from menu planning to wine pouring to setting the table. I’ve said before I could throw one every night and — truly — I almost wish I could. Even if just a few people come over, I plot out what [...]

[Weekend lunch, January 2008.]
When I have just a bit of bread with olive oil, or hummus, I always think of my friend Simon, because he is a bread-lover in the extreme. Last spring, when he and his wife came to visit me and I took them up to Armstrong Woods, we stopped for sandwiches [...]

Remember how I wrote that article for NPR about quinoa? And how surprised I was that so many people also share the quinoa-love (it’s still hanging in there in the top-emailed story list, nearly a month later)? Well, now I feel like I’ve totally kept back the best recipe of all — except, [...]