Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail This past fall, I began writing for Chef Magazine, a trade publication for chefs and foodservice professionals. My most recent story ‘Let’s Play Chicken‘ was about some the ways that chefs across the country are putting their own…
Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail I love to go out on New Year’s Eve. Now, I don’t love crowded bars or busy hotel celebrations, but I like to celebrate special occasions, like New Years’ Eve, at friends’ parties and going out to dinner. I…
Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail Last year, my friend Anita hosted an open house New Year’s Day party where her daughter, also a good friend of mine, made a big pot of Hoppin’ John, a simple black-eyed pea stew made with bacon, rice…
Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail One of my favorite, favorite food is macaroni and cheese. I like all versions of it: store-bought, boxed, homemade, from scratch, low-brow, gourmet. It’s comfort food, and it’s celebration food, and so versatile that even Brad, whose culinary…
Share:TwitterFacebookPinterestTumblrGoogle+StumbleUponemail I know, I know. I’m sharing a cookie recipe after Christmas, right when the Internet is breathing a collective sigh of relief that cookie season is finally behind us and that it’s time to return to our regularly scheduled diets.…