If I were here to give you a tip (tip being the choice over recipe, which is the other thing that makes me useful here), it would be this: Now is the time to light candles. Every day. This past week where I am, we fell back in time, and the world got dark. I…
why I love/hate/have to cook
I finally sat down and read all the pieces people have sent to me and the ones I’ve flagged as they show up in my never-ending “feed”. It seems, on the whole, to be an attempt at an honest conversation about home cooking, although I don’t think we’re quite there yet. I’ve got responses and…
August 6
When I was little, I went to a place I remember in my mind as Peace Camp. The camp director was the brother of a friend of my mother’s, and she worked out some deal to get me out of her hair for the summer. My first year, I was seven, the youngest camper there….
teary
The other night, I was chopping onions. I’ve been doing this a lot lately, as I’m in the middle of final tests of all sorts of recipes for my next book that are no possible way seasonal. We may be surrounded by corn and tomatoes and peaches, but we’re eating soup and lamb shanks and…
first of the month: busy busy
I’m a week away from a deadline. It’s not THE deadline, but it’s a big one nonetheless- big enough to have me up when it’s dark and still writing when it gets dark again. At the heart of this, I love what I’m doing, but still, part of me looks out the window at the…
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 6
- Next Page »
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 