Have you ever eaten something so incredibly delicious and memorable that you can’t get it out of your head? A year ago, I know this because it was peach season, we went to dinner at a local restaurant and despite being stuffed, our server convinced…
There are very few things I hate more than wasting food. In fact, in a post I wrote a few weeks ago, I mentioned that my disdain for food waste has made me a better cook. Refusing to throw away perfectly good ingredients I’ve purchased, and…
I wake up every day thinking about food, specifically what I’m going to eat for breakfast. Only rarely does my alarm go off and my first thought is of fluffy carbohydrates, covered and dripping in syrup. I seize those mornings, and throw together a batch…
“…but the feeling of communing over a table of good food and conversation is universal. It happens everywhere people gather.” Edward Lee makes this observation in his new book Buttermilk Graffiti while sharing a meal alongside a Moroccan family in their Connecticut home. This one excerpt from…
As a kid, I didn’t love peanut butter; I was okay with it in a PB&J sandwich and I had no problem eating a handful of Reese’s Pieces, but you would never catch me eating peanut butter straight from the jar. I know, so very…
There seem to be two kinds of people: those who can create an incredible meal off of the top of their heads, and those who live and die by following a recipe step-by-step. I always considered myself to be in the latter group, which makes…
“I never cook Korean food…it just doesn’t taste the same when eaten alone. I don’t know why, but it tastes so much better when eaten with other people.” This was my sister-in-law Christine’s response when I called her to ask if she would be interested…
Up late one evening, mindlessly surfing the Internet, I came across an article from Civil Eats about Javeri Kadri and her fast-growing company, Diaspora Co. Kadri founded Diaspora Co., a direct-trade single-origin turmeric distributor, in 2017 with a goal of putting power back into the hands…