If you’ve been cooking all your life – even just a home-schooled hack – you think you probably know it all. And when it comes to breakfast, is there really anything new under the sun? It took my good friend Billy – director, film professor, fantastic cook – to throw me a tip that has
Spring is in the air and that can only mean one thing. Love. Well, and also food, farmer’s markets, the first ramps and garlic shoots. Flowers. Sunshine. Holding hands and walking in the park. Go ahead, call me a romantic. I am hopeless. FOOD FOR MARRIAGE is not your daily rag. We do not provide
“What is more tedious for us than an early supper? It thrusts itself into the gathering speed of a day’s life like a stick into the spokes of a turning wheel.” –M.F.K. Fisher– I concur, and I keep on hand a mental stack of simple menus that call not for a recipe, but rather a
Ohio State. Cornell. Tufts. SUNY New Paltz. RISD. U. of Michigan. Penn State. R.I.T. Madison. Maryland. SUNY Albany. Champaign. Tulane. Burlington, VT. Dartmouth. Temple. UIC. USC. New England Conservatory of Music. From Boston to L.A., upstate New York to New Orleans, our four kids considered enough colleges to keep us on the road for four
Good news! According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch, when properly fished for, many varieties of tuna make their “Best Choice” or “Good Alternative” list for guilt-free healthy dining. That includes Yellowfin and Big-eye, both of which you will commonly find on sushi menus and can be caught by hand line or deep-set trolling
The day I graduated Middlebury College, my father gave me $1,500 to buy a new used car and this piece of advice. “You can pursue writing, but always be sure to have a real job first.” The Datsun hatchback I bought nearly didn’t get me to film school in L.A. The advice has stuck with
Who remembers the epic movie line quoted in the headline above? I won’t keep you in suspense. It’s Daniel Stern, as one of the “cutters” in BREAKING AWAY, reflecting on a high school romance that went sour. The above photo is not Cyril’s epiphany, but another movie moment, this one from ALMOST FAMOUS, that is
I once calculated that I have made about 6,000 meals for my kids. I’m not a chef, I’m a writer. That means I am well-versed in making countless decisions on a daily basis. Therein lies the key to feeding children, while not driving yourself crazy. Variety, bravery and reckless abandon. So we’re making fish tonight,
Leif Enger’s debut novel, PEACE LIKE A RIVER, has a single page that has left me leveled for the past 10 years. So like other PEACE devotees, I snapped up Enger’s latest work, VIRGIL WANDER, wondering if he could do it again. Let’s just cut to the chase. If you liked GARP, grab a hot
Spoiler alert: This column is not about haute cuisine. In fact, it is inspired by one of those accidental recipe moments that sometimes occur when you peer in your fridge with horror. I was starving. The boys and I had scarfed down copious amounts of Mexican food the night before. Now the kids had gone
