Working with Summer’s Fig Bounty This past week I was fortunate enough (and by fortunate I mean I was through the roof excited) to meet a new neighbor with her own fig and peach trees. Here in the city that is quite the friend to come across! (She’s also 65, makes her Read More

Happy Birthday to America’s Cooking Icon This coming week celebrates the birth (Aug. 15) and death (Aug. 13) of Julia Child. Had that culinary mastermind still been with us today, she would have been turning 100 this Thursday. I received my first Julia Child cookbook one Read More

Why I love Lard, and Why I Cleanse A few months ago, within the same week, both my best friend and my future sister-in-law asked me to be in their weddings. When Katie, my childhood best friend, asked me, I happened to be returning from the farmer’s market down the street, Read More