So far this summer, I’ve made strawberry, strawberry rhubarb, blackberry, blackberry raspberry nectarine, and blueberry. I’m dragging my feet big time in the kitchen when it comes to recipe testing for this new book, but I swear I’d make a pie every single day if I had the berries to fill them. It is my…
how we travel
When I was sixteen, my aunt took me on a road trip. We started at her purple Victorian in the Richmond District in San Francisco and drove east through California to Mono Lake in the Sierra Nevadas. We drove south from there, winding through Yosemite and following the mountains down until we got to Death Valley…
THE apron (a giveaway)
I’m no chef, so I have no chef’s coat. But I’m a firm believer in a uniform, and my Kelly and Co. apron is it. I bought my first Kelly and Co. apron before last year’s Craftsy class, but I’d been thinking about it for a few years. I had met Erin at local craft…
jess's kale and pomegranate salad
I’ve been thinking a lot about Patience Gray lately, and her book Honey From a Weed. I talked about her with Joe Yonan a bit on this week’s episode of The Splendid Table, and every time someone asks me about who I’m reading, her name keeps coming up. I think it’s because I see her writing about…
The horse feathers
Summer! We’re here! Yahooooooo! The first day, Sadie spend the entire rainy day in bed reading the The Fault in our Stars from start to finish (now I’m reading it, so we can have a movie date), and Rosie was just bored, bored, bored. She’s been perfecting her handstands in the backyard, and they are getting good. A few…
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Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 