It’s pretty typical of me that I would be sharing a link about summer cooking as the season is on its last legs, but I only just found this myself.
Mark Bittman’s Summer Express
Mark Bittman writes a column for the New York Times called “The Minimalist,” and he’s something of a foodie darling. This column consists […]

A friend and I have an ongoing, er, discussion about the relative merits of summer. He hates heat and baseball, and basically believes that the only things that redeem summer as a season are pool/lake activities, and tomatoes. While I disagree, and enjoy both baseball and all but the most humid and energy-zapping of the […]

I talked about the meal I made my parents a couple of weeks ago that included homemade tortillas, carne asada, beans and this salsa and guacamole. I’ve been making this salsa for years, and it’s one of those things that, if you cook, is ridiculous in its simplicity, yet it amazes me how impressed people […]

My parsley plant, with buttercream marigolds peeking through.
Growing up solidly middle class in Kansas City usually means eating a lot of steak. My childhood was full of mid-level steak places, including Ponderosa before they went the sneeze-guard route, Bonanza (which I had no idea was related to Ponderosa; thanks, Wikipedia!) and the York Steak House, […]