Have you ever noticed that the little brown packets of sugar in many cafes say "Grown in Hawaii"? I wonder what's going...

The selection for tonight's discussion at my culinary book club was a collection of brief essays and other types of short work about foo...

Chili with cornbread -- classic for winter! It was really cold today, though it's somewhat warming up: current temperature is in th...

A beautifully set table greeted us when we sat down for dinner last night at the home of our friends Jane and Howard. Red maple leaves,...

Before dinner yesterday: the set table including the little bowls ready for the pumpkin soup I made on Thursday and platters for the main ...

What do I do when I want nice browned onions? Pan-fried onions (sometimes with carrots or celery) are the start of many soups, stews...

At the end of each year, I consider where to send my charitable donations. One of my high priorities is organizations that offer food assist...

I've just read The Vegetarian by Han Kang, a best-seller that won the international Booker Prize last spring. I knew little about it,...

Snowing all day, snowing all day. In the park near us, the sledders and even one skier were whooshing down the pile of earth that we ca...

I've been thinking about Vincent Van Gogh and his very sad life, which is mysterious to me. In the last couple of years I have been to t...

Tonight for dinner: a curry-spiced dish of rice pilaf. I browned the rice in the pan with onion and garlic, with later additions of aco...

"I was sitting in bed reading one night when, with a great whirring of wings, Cicely flew across the room and landed heavily on the w...

Flambéing is the most fun part of making Poulet à la Normande, a chicken and apple dish from Normandy that recently appeared in the Ne...

In my December kitchen I'm resuming my cooking adventures and day-to-day prep. Yesterday I returned from another trip that included food...

This hawk had just caught a mouse, and we watched him eating it around 4 PM today. We saw the hawk as we were walking at Dyke Mars...