Homemade

I'm making onion soup. That's an excellent thing to do when you feel that there is nothing to eat at home, and it's the closest ...

We are having the most heavenly growing season out here in NYC. Last week I showed up at my CSA pickup and was handed a 20 lb. box of tomato...

As I've mentioned before , September is this year's official Eat Local Challenge month. The organizers of this event, which is now ...

green beans shelling peas cabbage scallions Swiss chard cucumbers, lots of cucumbers A few related comments: 1. I love beans. 2. No more let...

I've lost count how many weeks it's been, but we are now officially, as a newly favorite blogger of mine commented , in "a new ...

In the last meal that food journalist Michael Pollan prepares in Omnivore's Dilemma--the meal assembled of hunted and foraged ingredient...

Not long ago, my friend H. challenged me to write some how-to's for would-be ethical eaters. She had been reading Barbara Kingsolver...

It's been a good week for cooking. Word of the cherry pies spread to friends and neighbors, so those are disappearing fast. Last night, ...

Summer is here. I just pulled some pie dough that I mixed up yesterday from the fridge, and am getting this post started in the time it take...

Read this . These are the kinds of lives that simultaneously inspire my thinking about food and creativity and make anything that I've i...

Here's a picture of this week's harvest, avec chat. I figured that if I let her momentarily indulge her taste for green leafies, she...