Today is Terra Madre Day . It’s a day for celebrating good, clean, and fair food. This is a Slow Food celebration that focuses on protecti...

What does cooking simple mean to you? It might mean something different to me depending on the day. Right now, I’m trying to make my Thank...

I’m always drawn to the flavors of Levantine cooking and the generous use of vegetables in varied dishes. A new book starts with those fla...

I’m trying to remember my first encounter with hippie food. I know that I’d eaten whole wheat bread and home-grown vegetables my whole lif...

Do you have an opinion of British food? Has your opinion changed in recent years? Lately, British cuisine seems to be surging forward with...

I love a good cocktail party, of course, for the cocktails themselves but maybe even more for the little servings of food that go so well ...

In a rare instance of Kurt noticing what’s been happening in the kitchen, he pointed out that I’ve been making a lot of salads lately. It’...

Prior to making this, I’d only had watermelon curry once before. A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to observe as Chef Todd Dupl...

As I read the May issue of Bon Appetit , I noticed one mention after the next of little, old Austin. I thought: what are we, Portland? Cla...

As I put together the Marinated Cauliflower, Olive, and Caper Salad , it reminded me a lot of the kind of olive salad that’s usually on a ...

I keep a pretty close watch on new cookbooks that are published, but once in a while something slips by me. The hard cover version of The ...

Long, long ago, in a time before I made most things from scratch, my favorite salad dressing was Briannas brand Poppy Seed Dressing. Kurt ...

It’s going to take a bit of explaining to tell you how this dish came to be. First, some beautiful, fresh things like purple hull peas, a ...