From the NY Times
When Thomas Jefferson embarked on his grand tour of France in 1787, ...
There is a difference between jam and preserves. Jam is sweet fruit you spread on toast. ...
I got sick last week. Sick like “Oh my god, I’m never going to walk again.” Sick like, “Should I go ...
I could not possibly have let April go by without sharing this lemony recipe with you. This is one ...
Summer is fast approaching and more and more fruits and vegetables are coming in season. One of my ...
It’s funny how things come together in the kitchen. This week I’ve had lots of fingerling potatoes ...
These curlicue-shaped fiddlehead greens are a specialty of the forest. They are actually fern ...
1 Stick butter or margarine
2 cup chopped onion
2 large cloves of crushed garlic
1 1/2 cup chopped ...
From Our Best Bites
Makes 2 dozen
1 Spice cake mix (I used Betty Crocker)
1 15 ounce can pumpkin
1 ...
Filling:
3 Granny Smith apples, large (about 1 1/2 pounds), peeled, cored, and cut into 1/4-inch ...
Makes 1 Pound
Remember when gathering round the TV together was a family affair? Here's a tasty ...
Adapted from Sunset Magazine
For the pots de creme:
1 cup heavy whipping
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup ...
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1¼ pounds mushrooms, sliced
3 green onions, minced
1 garlic clove, ...
(Well two, if LeBron James leaves.)
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Houston, it seems, has as many nicknames as it does oil wells, but the one that touches my Texas ...
As I walk to where I'm meeting a friend in Cambridge at Thelonious Monkfish, I pass three places ...
I didn’t miss him all winter. Everytime I spoke to our mutual friends, who I guess he got custody ...
“Ouch,” my husband groaned miserably as something metal jabbed him in the side. “It’s like ...
Spending countless hours trapped in a cold, dimly lit basement -- that's what I remember about ...
The press representative agreed to let me into the Courbet retrospective a day before the preview. ...
When I decided to move across the country, my parents believed that I would quickly get over my ...
When my lovely daughter, Hillary was a Malibu pre-teen, I gave her what I thought was a total ...
Growing up on the central coast of California was paradisaical in many ways. The natural beauty. ...
Most cookbooks focus on what's new, but not all of them. And there are definitely some advantages ...
From the L.A. Times
Every spring as a kid, I reveled in the same Easter basket filled ...
In many homes on Easter Sunday, a succulent ham shank, crusted with brown sugar and mustard, is ...
As Spring slowly arrives in Maine and the snow stubbornly retreats, I push back the compost ...
Despite my aversion to Christmas, I have always loved Easter. My experience of it was never ...
The day after Governor Clinton announced his candidacy for President outside The Old State House ...
When I think of my dad -- and if you know me, you know I always do think of him – it’s often ...
My friend Sandy emailed me last week. “Just came back from a place that’s right up your alley”. My ...