Sometimes I absolutely love making dough. When I made this babka and the dough felt smooth and elastic as it should and it rose in the pan and then in the oven, I was beyond happy with myself. I felt like a baking goddess when I lifted the three hefty, chocolatey loaves from the oven. And I [...]
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A Lesson in Dough Perseverance
Posted in Writing, tagged kitchen disaster, kitchen nightmares, make dough, pierogi on January 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Bloggers: How Do You Manage Your Writing Schedule?
Posted in Writing, tagged blog posts, schedule, writing on May 19, 2011 | 17 Comments »
I often write my blog posts the day before I post. Almost always, actually. I do try to cook and take pictures a week or two ahead of time. But as a writer, I hate that part of the process where you have a blank page with no words to work with and you just [...]
What Food Books Do You Recommend?
Posted in Writing, tagged food books, m.f.k. fisher, ruth reichl, the art of eating on May 4, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Today is the first Blogathon theme day, and the topic is my favorite books about writing. Of course, I thought about reinterpreting this idea to be my five favorite books about food. But lately I haven’t been reading many food memoirs or new cookbooks. There is one book I’ve been meaning to read though: The [...]
A Nonprofit Food Magazine
Posted in Writing, tagged healthy food bank, spezzatino magazine on March 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I came across Spezzatino magazine, a nonprofit food magazine published by the Healthy Food Bank in Canada. I love the way the magazine is organized: Each month looks at a different food – from tomatoes to pork to chocolate (nice!) – through personal essays, features, and recipes. But what I love even more is [...]
America’s Oldest Residential Street and Biscuits from the 1700s
Posted in Recipes, Travel, Writing, tagged biscuits from the 1700s, elfreth's alley, jeffrey steingarten, philadelphia, the man who ate everything, thompson's turkey on November 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The last couple of weeks have been a complete whirlwind of writing and travel, which was challenging in a good way (the writing) and fun in a thank-God-for-a-break kind of way (the travel). But in my downtime, my brain was mush, so much so that I was sure any posts I wrote would be incoherent drivel. I [...]
Back When I Loved Meat…(My Mom’s Pork Without a Recipe)
Posted in Recipes, Writing, tagged bon appetit hon, pork recipes on October 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After writing just two days ago that I was going to post on Mondays and Thursdays, a bonus post has come up for this week: Bon Appetit Hon‘s Food Memory project. I was so excited when Wendi from BAH asked me to contribute a memory (Thanks Wendi!). So I told her about my favorite pork [...]
Food Science from What Einstein Told His Cook 2
Posted in Experiments, Writing, tagged food science, kitchen science, robert wolke, soft-serve ice cream, wasabi, what einstein told his cook 2, white film chocolate on September 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Several weeks after I mentioned that the very fun-sounding Cooking for Geeks book was sold out on Amazon, I was looking for blogging inspiration in my library’s food section. As the stars or Kismet or the higher powers would have it, I stumbled across another food science book instead: Robert L. Wolke’s What Einstein Told [...]
What I Ate in College
Posted in Writing, tagged college food, food & think blog, late night, smithsonian magazine on September 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Have you ever experienced Late Night? Years ago, this was a term for when college dining halls reopened in the late evening hours. But for me, Late Night also meant that I could finally eat as late as I wanted for the first time ever. And that made it an exciting, memorable event. So yesterday I was excited to learn that [...]
