One more episode of Chef's Table from Netflix, about Los Angeles chef and restaurateur Nancy Silverton. Much less of the usual phoniness...

This sloth has three visible clawed toes. We saw a number of sloths on our trip to the upper Amazon in Peru. If this were wordless Wednes...

"Why is this night different from all other nights?" is the first question of the traditional four questions that the youngest chi...

Passover is coming very soon: Monday, April 10. I'm looking over my recipes and getting ready to cook. As I do so, I'll post a few i...

Smiles in my kitchen -- the Mona Lisa winkie is new this month. I think Mona says "April Fool." THANKS, CAROL! Left of Mona: a ...

The Story of Corn by Betty Fussell was first published in 1992 in a beautifully designed edition with many illustrations. Books about a ...

Just published on March 14: Word by Word by Kory Stamper. Kory Stamper is a lexicographer, whose definitions and other work appear ano...

After slowly simmering lamb with spices. butter, and onions, you transfer the nearly-finished tagine to a serving dish, surround it with ...

"The Search for General Tso" is a documentary film about the ubiquitous chicken dish that's been popular in American restaur...

Chocolate Fudge Pie in the oven. Last week I wrote about pie for Pi Day (here:  Pi Day Discovery and Zingerman's Pie ).  This week, ...

A Quiet Place by Japanese mystery writer Seicho Matsumoto (1909–1992) is classified as a "psychological thriller." It's ent...

The politicization of diet guidelines, the role of big food and big agriculture in determining what the FDA can say, and the disputes overal...

Today at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, we visited the 2017 Ann Arbor Orchid Festival. Several orchid societies presented carefully a...