Special Offer: The Perfect Gift for New Parents
Because it’s Cyber Monday, I’m making a special offer on an old-school item: My cookbook. Because you can’t really wrap up a website, can you? If your best friend/daughter/niece/coworker/stepson/name-your-relation just had a baby, or is expecting one, I can’t think of a better gift than food. But consider that old saying: Give a mom a ...Keep Reading
Sanity-Saving, Last-Minute Dinner Trick
I love hate love Thanksgiving—all the planning and cleaning and cooking and strategizing and cooking and cooking and cooking… Know what I hate? Thanksgiving week dinners. After spending hours thinking about and working on Thursday’s feast, the last thing I want to do is devote more time to cooking dinner Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Seriously, ...Keep Reading
Eight Things About Eight Years
Eight years ago yesterday, my first child was born. I called it Words to Eat By. In honor of my baby’s blogaversary, I thought I’d share one highlight from each of its years, including some recipes that remain on my go-to list even now: 2005. For my first-ever guest post, the choice of writer was ...Keep Reading
Coming to the Institute of Culinary Education: Parents Need to Eat Too
I don’t have a culinary degree, and I’m not a professional chef. But when I first started toying with the idea that I’d like to work in food, I turned to the Institute of Culinary Education. Back then it was called Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, and you had to climb several flights of ...Keep Reading
The World’s Easiest Mother’s Day Menu [Recipe: Linguine with Pecorino, Lemon, and Mint]
If you’re a mom and you’re reading this, kindly hand the laptop/phone/iPad/whatever to your significant other. Now then: Mother’s Day is this Sunday. You already know this, I hope. And perhaps you’ve already got a gift planned, maybe some flowers, that gorgeous statement necklace I’ve she’s been eyeing, a spa day… All that’s lovely, and ...Keep Reading
