the vegetable book

On my computer, this book lives in a file called "the vegetable book," but you'll see it on the shelf as Eating From the Ground Up: Recipes for Simple, Perfect Vegetables. The book comes out on February 27 (!), so I wanted to share a few details about that here. Between now and then, Rosie and I ...

We are now at the moment when all food is holiday food. Even on regular nights when there's still school and work, it still feels like holiday food because we light the menorah (turning off the Christmas record just long enough to fumble through the prayer), we keep the fir candle burning, we have ...

A few bits and bites today, hoping to grasp something of substance if I can. Most exciting to me, I've finally found a new way to share kitchen music. Years ago I used to post weekly mixes, but I was quietly using some possibly not so legal means to do so. In the back of my mind I've been ...

Fifteen years ago, on the day I found out I was pregnant with Sadie, we went directly from Planned Parenthood to the arcade at the mall in Santa Fe. There was a walk around the block in the middle somewhere, a walk I've written about a lot in past years, around the little streets behind the clinic, ...

A few weeks ago, it fell to me to help to support a race. The store where I work was sponsoring the race by giving it a home and setting up a tent packed with fruit and water and energy bars, and I, along with 2 others, erected the tent and manned it through a Sunday morning. It was a running race, ...

I went to Europe for the first time in 1997. I was 18, coming off of a failed attempt at college and several months of double shifts in San Francisco restaurants trying to make enough money for a plane ticket. I carried around with me a haze of too much pot smoking, the weight of too many ...

I'm going to say right off the bat here that I've got a recipe for you. It seems I've lost some of you here and on social media with all these march photos, and if you're on the brink of going that way, that's okay--it's your choice to make, whatever your reasons. But if a recipe is what you're here ...

Every year right around this time, I write about cookbooks again. That post becomes one of so many shouting around the internet about THE BEST BOOKS FOR GIFTING, and yet, here I am again, thinking about books for gifting. But today I'm thinking about why we give cookbooks in the first place. ...

I went to my first march when I was 10 or 11, a big NOW wave through the streets of Boston, flanked on either side by my mother and grandmother. It ended in a grand church where some important speaker got up and spoke about the power of choice, but, distractible as I was, I spent the whole time ...

Let's just pick up right here. Or rather, back then. The summer I was sixteen, I lived in my aunt and uncle's basement in San Francisco. They lived in a purple victorian in the Richmond District. The basement room belonged to my cousin Colette, a painter maybe 8 years older than me who also had a ...

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roasted turnip salad

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