Cooking Articles

The Secret is Out

I am a very bad person. I have lied and I have manipulated. More than once has a friend gasped in shock at my confessions and reacted with exclamations including words such as, but not limited to, "deceived!"...

Raid the Refrig: It's Time to Stir-Fry

Summer’s right around the corner and the livin’ is easy. Or is it? Are you and your kids busier than ever? Do you find yourself waiting in line at the fast food joint more often than cooking in...

Building A Better Burger

Are you looking to change up your burger routine this summer? With the unofficial start of summer underway many of us are firing up the grill today for the first official round of warm weather burgers. The...

My First Cooking Success

The following are some of my personal ideals in the kitchen: • Follow directions, but still allow room to add or change things to suit your own taste. • Do not be afraid to try something new...

Cooking From the Plot to the Plate

Greetings from San Francisco, land of plot-to-plate cooking. More commonly referred to as “farm to table” cooking, this movement of sourcing locally produced food was born of this city and to this...

Kiddie Sized Barbecue Favorites

Are you looking for some fun, last minute ideas to kick off the barbecue season this Memorial Day? If your grilling menu for today is not yet set, then consider making some barbecue classics in miniature...

School Jitters

I will never forget my first day of cooking school. I was an absolute nervous wreck. It was a very hot August morning as I made my way through the streets of SoHo dragging my big bag containing my uniform,...

BBQ From the Crockpot to the Grill

Inspired by a recent trip up to Harlem for some barbecue at a place called Dinosaur Barbecue, “a genuine honky tonk rib joint” (and also a new branch of the original renowned Syracuse location), I...

Noodles to Last a Lifetime

I was chatting with some friends the other day about what we would want to have if we were stuck on a desert island and could only eat a few foods for the rest of our lives. This all started when we were...

Jealousy gripped my stomach and took hold of my taste buds when my boyfriend told me he was headed to Wild Ginger this past week. Memories of my last meal at this highly regarded Seattle eatery flooded...

Lessons In Cooking, From My Grandmother

“You spend too much time thinking about food and wine.” This is what my grandmother said to me as she drove me to meet the Marin Airporter at the end of the summer I lived with her. I didn’t really...

Just back from an amazing two week trip to South Africa, I came home with a lot of extra stuff. Thanks in part to the unexpectedly fantastic food and an inability to go on five-mile runs when one is in...

Behind every great chef is usually a great woman. It can be no coincidence that when asked their inspiration for cooking, so many great male and female chefs will cite a mother or a grandmother. Stereotypical...

It was just a few days ago when my daughter was putting some dishes away after a small family get-together (and standing up on a stool putting away some rarely-used large platters and bowls), when she...

Time for the Wednesday Teen Gourmet again. The neat thing about this menu is that I’m the one who gets to decide what the teenage chef is going to be cooking. Just in time for Mother’s Day too. Not...

In some ways, everything I know about eating my mother taught me. Like most people, it was my mother who brought the first food to my mouth. She started with breast milk and as I grew, she slowly introduced...