Cooking Articles

As you probably know, I not only love food and cooking, but am also intrigued by the history of food. For this Christmas column, I did a bit of research on the traditional foods and customs of Christmas...

Today it’s too early to think about health. It is Christmas morning, a time for leftover Santa cookies, flaky scones, smoked salmon, and maybe a fruit squeezed in there somewhere. Later there will...

Tis the season for sweet beverages, and it's the only time of year your Aunt Edna allows herself to punch it up with some nog-love. Of course, if there's one culinary constant during the holidays, it...

Face it, whatever your plans are for New Years Eve, the food plan should come down to one thing: eat whatever you want because tomorrow the diet starts. For some people this plan might involve sharing...

As the holiday season winds to an end, we start to think about how we will usher in the New Year. In the past, I have had some pretty memorable New Year’s Eve experiences, everything from walking into...

As this decade comes to a close, it might be nice to look back on some of the most influential cooking trends of the last ten years. Whether or not you realized it, not so much a trend as a revolution...

We could all use a little luck with the coming of the New Year. In America, particularly the American South, that often means sitting down to a bowl of black eyed peas. As the name suggests, the legume...

New Year’s Eve always comes so quickly, with a breathless, in-your-face reality check that another year is gone. I’m always a bit saddened, but am also glad and ready for a new year, a fresh start. When...

From Eve's Indulgence To Morning's Resolutions

I’ve spent New Year’s Eve in about every way imaginable. There have been intimate home-cooked meals for four and large appetizer spreads for forty. I have been at a resort in Bali standing in line...

I love the holidays. But luckily for my liver (and kidneys and waistline and …), the holiday season lasts only for a few weeks a year. Holiday season 2006 was a doozy. It was one that may haunt my...

Recipe for a Happy New Year

New Year's morning: a day full of promise, begun with resolutions and expectations of a better year to come. My first resolution on New Year's morning is generally some variation of swearing off alcohol...

Some New Ways to Welcome the Year

New Year’s traditions. We either love ‘em, hate ‘em or ignore ‘em. And yet from making resolutions to toasting the best that’s yet to come—or in whatever other ways you celebrate the arrival...

Get Lucky With Black-Eyed Peas

Everyone always makes lots of New Year’s resolutions. I used to. I recently went back to one my journals from age eleven, and read a list that I had written up the day before New Year’s Eve. A sample...

The New "Chip" Is Green

In a surprising entrance to the world of snack foods, kale is making a strong case for its place as the “new potato chip.” That’s right, kale--dark green and curly, flat and thin, red tipped, or...

New Year's Resolutions for Competent Cooks

The problem with New Year's resolutions is that they can be awfully tough to keep. �We tend to make resolutions for the more trying things in life that we wish to change but somehow rarely do. �This year...

Grits: A Neglected Fruit

Professor Bachelor Chow--that would be me--or Dr. BC for short, is from the Deep South. After a brief stint living in the frozen Midwest, I now thankfully reside in central Texas (pronounced "Tey-Hass"...