My husband David and I lived in Austin, Texas, for 13 years, and in that time, we learned to respect the holy trinity of Texas...
Read MoreI graduated from Syracuse University and during my four years there, I ate a LOT of frettas at The All Night Eggplant diner—usually with a...
Read MoreMan! I love a European buffet breakfast. When Dave and I visited Reykjavik, Iceland last March (photos!), our hotel served up an epic buffet every morning...
Read MoreI've been joking that I'm becoming a homesteader since we moved to Vermont. That is an (unintentional) insult to homesteaders everywhere. Preserving things during the...
Read MoreA few months ago, I had the great pleasure of collaborating with Nom Nom Paleo on a magazine piece about egg foo yong. The magazine...
Read MoreBack in the day, before I cared so much about the food I put into my body – in those dark days when being skinny...
Read MoreDoing a strict Whole70 means not eating breakfast at my favorite Tex-Mex breakfast joint. My writing skills and the English language, in all its richness,...
Read MoreMy dad owned a restaurant when I was a kid, and cooking is in my family's DNA. It's been especially exciting for me lately because...
Read MoreUpdate September 15, 2015: The traditional blender method below works great, but you can make it even easier and faster with a stick blender. Place...
Read MoreI'm super into British mystery books – Dick Francis, Elizabeth George, but not Agatha C... sorry! – and TV shows like Midsomer Murders and the...
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