Keep your potatoes from turning brown
No doubt you’re making all sorts of potato dishes this winter, like my favorite potato and spinach au gratin or this tartiflette. Or it’s holiday time and you’re figuring out how to prep mashed potatoes for a crowd while keeping them pretty....
Desserts inspired by modern art
I can’t tell you how much I love this. Caitlin Freeman, pastry chef at SFMOMA’s Blue Bottle Cafe (update: there’s no longer a location in the SFMOMA) creates these edible masterpieces inspired by the museum’s works of art. I have...
Agent Colt Shore: Domino 29
True story: I once had a gig in espionage. Honestly. I can’t really share any details – statute of limitations and all that – but money and information did change hands, and I operated under a code name. A not-very-cool-sounding code name, but still....
Can you print me out a burger, mom?
I am completely flabbergasted at this Jetsons-meets-Chickienobs notion that one day in the not-so-distant future we’ll most likely have the ability to push a button on a kitchen device and be delivered a steak or burger. It’s called “bioprinting,” and people are actually working to figure out ways to let us have our cows and eat them too. Check it out.
This is the Best Cookie Ever and it’s named after compost
A single bite of this cookie transports you into a taste-fueled rabbit hole, a complex tunnel of sweet and salty from which there’s no turning back … it’s Christina Tosi’s Compost Cookie. Tosi is the chef and owner of New York’s Momofuku...
Tom Colicchio’s movie about hunger: A Place at the Table
A Place at the Table is a movie executive produced by Tom Colicchio and Participant Media about hunger in America. Lori Silverfish and Kristi Jacobson directed.
Are calorie counts really accurate?
A recent almond study that showed that they have 20% fewer calories than thought, which begs the question . . . what’s up with calories? Are they estimates, abstractions, or even accurate? Here’s all the scoop for you – how they’re measured, what they represent, and why numbers vary. Plus, a very good video from a filmmaker who learned that some of his favorite foods have more calories than labeled.
Book spine poetry: the food edition
This morning I decided to play Book Spine Poetry but handicap myself by choosing only food fiction or food fact books. There’s a collection spilling around the kitchen; I thought it would be easy. But turns out a shelf of titles starting with “The” and ending in “Cookbook” is a bit limiting, and try as I might I couldn’t figure out how to put “The Widow Cliquot” together with “A Goose In Toulouse” and “The Nasty Bits” without cheating. Check it out – here’s what I came up with.
The over-packaged banana
For reasons of self-preservation, I don’t get angry with the content of most news reports. I generally accept that, despite best intentions and the presence of good in this world, there will always be greed, evil, and just plain stupidity. But a plastic-wrapped banana – seriously? What’s going on here?
A tale of two sausages
It wasn’t unusual that LL and I were each reading last weekend. It was unusual, though, that at the exact same moment each of us reached a page in our respective books that contained a recipe. Recipes written by people famous for something other than cooking....Urban farming
Novella Carpenter is my newest heroine. I’ve just finished reading her book Farm City: Confessions of an Urban Farmer, in which she moves into a ramshackle apartment on a dead-end street in a dead-end Oakland, CA neighborhood and hesitantly plants a garden in...Welcome to my skillet!
I'm Maggie, a food-loving, curiosity-seeking, nature-loving mom. I'm here serving up bite-sized recipes, raves, and reviews about food and family, food and culture, food and the environment, and food and travel. Thanks for stopping by!
