I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that just about every day there is a food holiday being celebrated. Last week we celebrated National Watermelon Day, as well as National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day (I thought that was every day…) and the week prior was National Avocado…
“The first thing that I’m going to do when I go back home, is go to the park and get a big plate of fritanga.” My friend Eric tells me this, eyes closed, mentally picturing this meal he plans to eat the second he returns home…
For years I was the queen of weekly meal-prep. I would spend all day Sunday preparing me and my husband’s lunches, snacks, and sides for the following week. Doing this would almost guarantee that, because we had food prepared, we’d be far less likely to…
There are very few things that I love more than baking homemade bread; the way it makes my house smell as it rises in the oven, the bubbles that form in the dough as a result of the fermented starter I spent months building, the…
On a recent solo trip to Berlin, I rented a room on Airbnb and stayed in the very modern apartment of a guy named Kuba. What is now a very rare and ideal Airbnb experience, I was sent out every day with a list of…
I talk a lot about food memories and how food not only connects us to other people, but it also connects us to our past. Every summer as cherries start appearing in the produce section of the grocery store, and as I find myself taste testing…
Despite it being one of the trendiest foods of all time, avocado toast is one of my very favorite things. I could eat it every single morning, even if that meant never eating a warm bowl of oatmeal or drinking a cold, refreshing smoothie again. By…
“I remember walking into my grandmother’s house…her house was small, no bigger than this room, and smelling this bread cooking on her stove.” My friend Philip recounted this memory to me as we stood in his kitchen, waiting for the Irish soda farls he was…
While preparing dinner recently, I was listening to this episode of the Radio Cherry Bombe podcast with guest Jessamyn Rodriguez from Hot Bread Kitchen. About 14 minutes into the podcast, the women on the show started raving about this amazing sauce that they couldn’t get enough…
In my initial post about The Amateur Garden, I mentioned that I always envisioned myself growing and harvesting armfuls of veggies. Well, I am now 3 months into vegetable gardening, and I can tell you that my vision was a little bit off. The armfuls…