On my computer, this book lives in a file called “the vegetable book,” but you’ll see it on the shelf as Eating From the Ground Up: Recipes for Simple, Perfect Vegetables. The book comes out on February 27 (!), so I wanted to share a few details about that here. Between now and then, Rosie…
if we are to imagine that there could be another way, unstuck
A few weeks ago, it fell to me to help to support a race. The store where I work was sponsoring the race by giving it a home and setting up a tent packed with fruit and water and energy bars, and I, along with 2 others, erected the tent and manned it through a Sunday morning. It…
colette's library
Let’s just pick up right here. Or rather, back then. The summer I was sixteen, I lived in my aunt and uncle’s basement in San Francisco. They lived in a purple victorian in the Richmond District. The basement room belonged to my cousin Colette, a painter maybe 8 years older than me who also had…
how to make a pie
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…
the state of summer
Happy July. I’m guessing that you might want to be more off your computer than on these days, so I won’t keep you long. It’s summer around here, which means that everything changes and the house gets very messy. I’m down one kid at camp (the Unitarian anarchist sort), and I’ll have her back in…
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Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 