One would think a bread that has a taste and texture of yeast bread would contain — yeast. Irish soda bread, usually a round, humble-looking golden…
Browsing: Cooking My Way Home
One winter a few years ago, I decided to hike up a hill in the rain. The walk was a long, steady incline, all the while…
If a sign of good, “honest” food can be determined by the number of calendars hanging on the walls of a back road’s diner, as William…
I love the cookie — I mean, the holiday season. Well, it can be cookie season for many of us, who, around this time of year,…
Uncovering the possibilities of sweet potatoes Of all the dishes placed on the Thanksgiving table, the most curious, to me, has always been the marshmallow-topped sweet…
I heard that Merriam-Webster recently added “pumpkin spice” as a new term in the dictionary. It’s not surprising. The rally cry — and answer — for…
Falling for a Forgotten Autumn Fruit Early on, maybe I never thought much about pears because my mom’s beauty of a pear tree, while providing the…
A ‘baking geek’ reflects on changing practices My mom’s cookie sheets — the ones on which I learned to bake — could have been used on…
It seemed like our hot summer kitchen actually got cooler when my mom made coleslaw. She conjured it completely from scratch, starting with the scrubbed carrots…
I once spent a Saturday as a twenty-something challenging myself to see how many doughnut shops I could hit (and eat) within a day’s time. In…