
Letting sleeping figs lie
Over the years I've had an antidote to the garden sparseness that comes over southern France in November. My secret [...]

Menus for chickens
Our neighbor in our French town left recently, putting us in nominal charge of his chickens. And since chickens need [...]

Not a Caravaggio-like summer
Almost every year, toward the end of summer, I have sauntered out into whatever garden I had at the time [...]

A soupçon of summer soups
I’ve been thinking about how I cook and why it might be absolutely impossible to make the things I make […]

Swimming upstream
Do you eat so much salmon that you feel gills are the next step in your personal evolution process? Do [...]

Fab fave and rad radishes
Every year about this time, I look out into my garden and marvel at the myriad fava beans (broad beans [...]

A “hare” named Loulou
Today I’d like to talk about why I can no longer eat rabbit. In a world of vegans and vegetarians [...]

Color cuisine
I once knew someone whose child would eat only white foods. Who knows, maybe she outgrew it later, but at [...]

Cool Whip resolutions
For the biblical Three Kings, the January epiphany represented the spreading of one religion's good news. News that was big [...]

The greatest gifts
At holiday time, the expression "giving up" comes with two meanings. The first suggests throwing in the towel on gift-shopping [...]

A genius with food
As we head into Thanksgiving territory, here's a word of kitchen advice: treasure the pumpkin seeds. Along with nuts of [...]