Now I’ve Seen Everything
In an email newsletter I get about the publishing business, I just read that Ten Speed Press has acquired Hostess’s The Twinkies Cookbook, “a compilation of recipes contributed ...
Baking, Books, Breakfast, Nutritious Nibbles, Snack, Weight Watchers
Strawberry-Rhubarb Bread
After the success of the strawberry-rhubarb compote that went with last week’s chocolate polenta cake, I simply had to buy more of both items ...
Sunday Night Dinner: Fricasseed Chicken Breasts with Fresh Herbs and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
When I’m working in an office, as I am until mid-June, I like to cook something substantial on Sunday nights—both to flex my kitchen muscles and ...
Recent Cookbook Acquisitions
Between the full-time freelance gig, Passover leftovers from my mom, and the stomach virus, I may not have been doing a lot of cooking lately, but I have been ...
Books, Jew Food, Mains, Recipes
A Brisket, a Tasket (What is a “tasket,” anyway?)
On the great, long list of Jewish dishes worth losing a kidney for—kasha varnishkes, matzoh balls, potato kugel, kishke—one stands head and shoulders above the ...
Stuck on You, Round Two: Turtle Tart
I wasn’t exactly thrilled with my earlier attempt at making caramel, so I thought I’d try again. Tonight I’m going to my friends’ for dinner, and ...
Sugar High Friday: I Want Some-Moas!
When I was a kid my mom always bought a lot of Girl Scout Cookies. I mean, a lot. Multiple boxes (six, eight?) each ...
I’m Getting My Act Together, and Taking It on the Roadfood
One of the benefits of my many years in book publishing is that if I ask nicely enough, I can often get a book before it’s ...
It’s Sugar High Monday!
Well, ok, actually it’s not. But it is the Monday before Sugar High Friday. You know what that means, don’t you? It means that if you haven’t ...
Books, Mains, My Story, Recipes, Weight Watchers
Just Like Coming Home (Plus a Recipe for Chicken Adobo)
First of all, thank you to everyone who left those wonderfully encouraging comments on my “I look fat” post. It really did help.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking ...