Fruit and vegetables are at their peak right now! I baked peach crisp from 6 of the 12 ripe white peaches that we bought at Costco. ...

Outdoor cooking and dining: so great in summer... In my outdoor kitchen in July: a new Weber Grill, which I've already written about ...

Pot-Au-Feu: Convivial, Familial: Histoires d'un Mythe. Editor: Julia Csergo. Published 1999. What's the key to all French cook...

These photos show several murals of many in Lancaster, PA, where my brother and sister-in-law live. I thank them for creating t...

On summer evenings an hour or so before sunset, over 100 sandhill cranes gather on the shore of Four Mile Lake, which is a bit east of Ch...

In our Neighborhood: Burns Park, Ann Arbor A Pot Farm! In our neighborhood: a pot farm has just been planted on a formerly vacant si...

In this photo: building a fire in the new grill at 7 AM this morning. In preparation for Len's latest cooking experiment, we bought ...

Innovations! Author Joan deJean discusses the origins of a surprising variety of innovations in her book The Essence of Style: How the Frenc...

A Baya wood sculpture of a wise man, from the Bambara people of Mali. Our Art Fair purchase last week. We bought our new sculpture fr...