The True Key to Instilling Healthy Eating Habits in Children
When an unfamiliar food appears at the family dinner table, often this sacred place of communion summarily shifts to a hostile...
A Meditation on Eggs
The consummate egg soufflé emerges from the oven—which dare not be either prematurely or belatedly opened—a puffy cloud cloaked in...
Food News: 'Zahav' serves up Michael Solomonov's modern Israeli recipes
Israeli chef Michael Solomonov is both informative and pure fun today in an interview on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air.’ Talking with Dave Davies,...
On Mark Bittman leaving the NY Times
On September 12, Mark Bittman announced his departure from the New York Times food editorial section, at least as a standing columnist....
Steadfast Summer Grilling
Like the promise of paradise in the afterlife, the reward for enduring a scorching hot summer day in California is the exquisite pleasure...
The Swann Oyster Depot Experience of Today
A few San Francisco locals join the crowd of hungry tourists starting to queue around ten in the morning. After an expectant half hour,...
West Marin's Wondrous Agritourism
Those who find themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area this summer would be perspicacious in taking a detour to bucolic West Marin—whose...
Fun with Marinated Feta
There's no big secret behind marinated feta. Transforming a brined sheep or goat milk feta into marinated feta requires nothing more than...
The Paleo Way
When the “Paleo diet” emerged, it sounded like another low-carb fad, conjuring memories of the Flinstones and mental images of raw meat...
Home Cooking with Microgreens
Harvesting Chinese mustard microgreens. “With a few pots on hand, the home chef can reap a variety of microgreens to spruce and sprinkle...