Cooking Articles

The Fig Is Your Just Desserts

Writing a column on meals that can be made in under 30 minutes always seems to come up dramatically short in one area of the meal: the end. Dessert, arguably the best and most memorable part of dinner,...

Kids and Food Choices: What Would They Choose?

The girls wiped their dripping chins on their arms, smiling up at me with a sparkle in their eyes that came from much more than the juicy peaches I had just peeled and sliced for them. From much more than...

Stewing Georgia Style

Way down in South Georgia, not too far from the Florida border, is one of the most active port towns on the Atlantic: Brunswick. Most of we sons of Georgia make it through Brunswick at least once, sometimes...

Meatball Mondays

Somewhere in America today a child is reading a book and praying that tomorrow night the sky opens up and starts raining spaghetti and meatballs. The classic children’s story of a town whose residents...

A Moveable Breakfast

You know those mornings when everyone is trying to rush out the door to meet the school bus and get to work on time? If this is your reality on most weekday mornings then you’re definitely not alone....

The Surface of Things

Since before Lady Liberty made her home off the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City has been a melting pot of cultures and races welcoming all who made it past Ellis Island. Given the current state...

Here to Stay: Whole Grain Snack Ideas

My kids have a joke about my favorite bread: it’s that 12-plus multi-grain bread with all those crunchy seeds and grains. They say “the more, the better for Mom!” and wonder if there will ever...

Living La Vida Local

They call themselves locavores or lacalvores and commit to eat foods grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes. Some are strict and forsake even salt and pepper while others are more flexible and...

Eggspert Advice, Part III

By request, I am offering the third installment of "Eggspert Advice." �Thanks to your feedback, this week we will tackle boiling, coddling and poaching. The fourth and final installment of "Eggspert Advice"...

Walkin' the Hog

As I was picking beans a few weeks ago, I looked up and saw my neighbors walking with three hogs down the center of our gravel road. Their little jiggly butts (point of clarification--the hogs’ butts,...

Slow Cooker Cravings

Over the last couple of months, my eating habits have changed dramatically. It is as if my body has been taken over by a force not entirely within my control. And this is for a very good reason— I...

There's More to Melon Than Fruit Salad Filler

Some call it “fruit salad filler”. I call it one of the world’s most underrated fruit categories. Whatever you call it, chances are there is more to the humble melon than meets the eye. With flesh...

French Toast Joie de Vivre

French toast seems to be all the rage these days. �I've seen it not only on brunch menus lately, but interestingly enough, dessert menus too. �Finally someone has had the good sense to get people to eat...

Bye-Bye to Bacon?

Living a healthy life is important to me and important to my primary employer, The Republic of Tea, as well. As such, they recently offered us a free health screening that involved a more in-depth blood...

The New School Lunch "Box"

Do you remember the old school metal lunchbox that came with its own thermos bottle? Embellished with a favorite TV show character, action figure, or comic strip superhero, these sturdy workhorses lasted...

Eat More Apps, Add Spice to Your Life

If variety is the spice of life, then there is nothing spicier than an entire meal of appetizers. All it takes is one look at the prevalence of restaurants featuring small plates to realize that this...