Jew Food, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Soup
Mushroom Barley Soup
This is another recipe I grew up with, and when the weather turns cool it’s one of my favorite—and easiest—things to make. It’s from an English ...
Baking, Bread, Jew Food, My Story
Friday Afternoons
What’s that you say—today is Tuesday, not Friday? Well I know that, silly. This is another one of those memory pieces, in which I wax rhapsodic about a food I ...
A Huge Thank-You to Charlie Suisman at Manhattan User’s Guide
Of the handful of e-newsletters to which I subscribe, there are two whose content I find invaluable enough to forward to others nearly every week. One is Chowhound’s Chownews, to ...
Foods Traditional, Commercial, and Unusual
In the course of one very long day (yesterday), I helped S’s family celebrate his great-grandmother’s 102nd birthday, checked out the new Cereality shop in Philadelphia, and visited an old ...
A Huge Thank-You to Charlie Suisman at Manhattan User’s Guide
Of the handful of e-newsletters to which I subscribe, there are two whose content I find invaluable enough to forward to others nearly every week. One is Chowhound’s Chownews, to ...
Words to Eat By’s First Annual Foodie Gifts Round-Up
I get a lot of catalogs. I mean A LOT of catalogs. Not sure why, exactly, except that I do a good portion of my shopping online. Sometimes I picture ...
And the Winner in a Landslide…
Recently I invited you all to vote on which recipe I’d play with for the next edition of Sugar High Fridays, on December 10. The theme requires using one ...
A Broccoli from Another Planet
What the hell is this? I saw it at the farmer’s market the other day. Something about its swirling chartreuse peaks, like a cross between a science ...
Marcella Says Knock You Out
If Ina Garten is an inspiration, the woman who helped me see there was another path for me than the one I was on, then Marcella ...
BMI, Weight, and Me: Let Confusion Reign
Gina Kolata had a brief, interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times about the fact that, according to his BMI of 26.4, our vigorously healthy and virile President is ...