Homemade

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 ...

I went apple picking with my friend S. on Sunday. I thought they'd give us a ladder, but instead we each got a long stick with a plunger...

My brother- and sister-in-law, B. & B., live in Colorado where they work as a cook and pastry chef, respectively. This spring, they vast...

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...

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...

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...

For those of you not into brewing, knitting, or Dutch novels about Mexico , I bring you a new feature: what's fresh now. That's righ...