Muffin-Tin Spanakopitza
A food writer without an oven is like a beauty queen without a pageant. A filmmaker without a screen. A politician without an election: You can lay the most spectacular…
Great Cookbooks for Holiday Gifts (Recipe: Quick Olive Focaccia)
Did you know that cookbooks make terrific holiday gifts? It’s true. Really. And I happen to know a whole group of food writers with cookbooks so varied, one of them…
Maple-Cinnamon Butter (for the best biscuits I ever made)
I have lost my writing mojo. It may have something to do with the insomnia that’s been raging for the last week or two—most nights I wake up sometime between…
Possibly the Most Versatile Bread Dough Ever
Waaay back in the TBS (Time Before Stephen), when I was a marketing exec at a book publisher and dreaming about opening a prepared-foods shop, I took some classes at…
Herbed Flatbread from Good to the Grain
If you read a lot of food blogs, I’m going to guess you’ve heard about Kim Boyce’s cookbook Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours. It won Food52’s Piglet—their…