Food Musings

I count my career blessings often. Some of my earliest are the lessons I learned in the restaurant where my career began: L’Escargot in…

Welcome to the “Twelve Cakes of Christmas,” written by Michelle Rizzolo of Big Sur Bakery with original illustrations from Wendy…

And no, it doesn’t involve Instagram

A baker finds her recipe for the perfect pie

At some point on a recent trip to Manhattan my partner and I, both lovers of good food, asked the inevitable question — where do people…

He sold me salmon, and became my friend

I first entertained the idea of writing a cookbook in 2007.

Cooking, Fishing and Farming in the Hamptons is Perfect Now

When cleaning out your kitchen gets personal

For chefs it transcends technique even though you’re taught otherwise

My long, obsessive, and (too) deep relationship with hamburgers goes back to the earliest moments of consciousness—my plump little fingers…

A brief meditation of a timeless piece of glass

It was two days before Yom Kippur 2012 and Russ and Daughter’s was busier than I had ever seen it.

One of the first things you learn when you open a Mexican restaurant in New York City is that most people will order a margarita and some…

There’s a growing chorus of concern among professional chefs on both sides of the Canada/U.S.

On learning to cook when Alzheimer’s stole my grandmother’s ability to do the same.

You’re probably doing it wrong

Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn’t figure…

My father rarely questions my culinary integrity. If he does, it usually involves my endorsement of some particularly posh, expensive…

The Queen of Food Network, Paula Deen, has been fired for, as I’ve seen described by 50% of internet users, “being a horrible old racist…

I know there are people who find Twitter chaotic and shallow, but I was reminded recently why I love it.

Honey might be the most miraculous food, and also the most poetic.