New in my kitchen this month: my resolve to label things as I store them in the freezer. For this, I bought freezer tape! In the past,...

You may think I cook in a very exotic way. I didn’t want to give the wrong impression, so I decided to post a photo of tonight’s dinner: ...

Cuisine de Côte d'Ivoire et d'Afrique de l'Oeust is a very exotic cookbook that I bought on my most recent trip to Paris. In ...

To honor the memory of Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018), who died a few days ago, I decided to read one of her books that I've never read...

Nothing is happy in Louise Erdrich's recent book Future Home of the Living God . It might be one of the most depressing books I have e...

Words that sound good or funny often catch my attention. Two words I like for this reason are  cromulent  and  esculent . Runners up include...

What did Lincoln eat? Here are some examples: Gingerbread men made by his mother, who died when he was 9. Honey from "bee trees" n...

Kitchen Torch Chemistry We have been having great fun with our new kitchen torch. I have found it amusing to look into what it does t...

It's Wordy Wednesday again. Last week one of the words I mentioned was Panglossian , which comes from Pangloss, a character in Voltaire...

My new, custom-made purse. Thank you, Evelyn.

"Cephalopods are an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals. Because our most recent common ancestor was so s...

New in our arsenal: a kitchen torch arrived Friday. We started with steak. Flaming the steak (after broiling) brought out the flavor of b...

Spices in the Machane Yehuda Market, Jerusalem, 2006. Cold, cold winter here: frequent snow storms, grey skies with rare glimpses of blu...

Robin Sloan's novel Sourdough  conveys a sense of the author's wonder at the richness of the English language. Following are a few ...