

The half-full glass, with thanks
I’m supposed to be writing about food. But it’s disturbing to see images of cars in California lined up to get food packages, nice cars, [...]

One too many in the kitchen
I love an audience when I'm cooking. My kitchen is normally open to the world. Though I invite interested guests [...]

Loafing in Coronaville
So here we are, all of us in the same pickle, or so it seems. But are we really? I [...]

Food to coax back calm
Well, here we are in a new world. From my southern French hamlet my heart goes out to Italy, to [...]

Winging the duck
Even a seasoned cook — and yes, I'd been waiting for a chance to spring that pun — has kitchen [...]

By the book with Suzanne
So here’s the thing. We cooks have a wealth of rules in the kitchen. The rules don't budge, even as [...]

Oops, forgot the berries!
I speak only for myself, but I know from experience that sometimes a friend can give you a treasured recipe [...]

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 [...]