Just Desserts
Share If a couple weeks ago you earnestly pledged yourself to some New Year’s resolution, I’m a little annoyed at you. This is for several reasons. One, chances are, your resolution involves getting in...
View ArticleGame On
ShareI am the daughter of a devoted sports fan. My father follows most major flavors of professional athleticism (he is lukewarm about hockey). He is devoted to college sports, regularly attends triple...
View ArticleA Load of Guac
ShareI once heard that more avocados are consumed on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year. This is wrong: Super Bowl Sunday doesn’t touch the 14 million pounds of avocado consumed on...
View ArticleThe Truth About Triple Crème
ShareIf there’s a cheese pairing associated with Valentine’s, it’s a glass of bubbly and a wedge of triple crème. Lovers who fall for this luxe combo tend to think of it as a supremely naughty...
View ArticleDIY Junk Food
ShareWhen I was eight years old, my family moved from Southern California to a cozy neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. To my young mind, there were a number of good things about our move, but none was...
View ArticleSmall Fry
ShareOne of the rules I’ve come to adopt as a life tenet is that sometimes, you just gotta say f— it. Since my boyfriend and I began dating about five years ago, we’ve been compiling a list of wise...
View ArticleRarebit Dreams
ShareMy father does not have an illustrious history with cooking. You wouldn’t know that looking at him in the kitchen now – when my grandmother’s health was failing, he studied with her so that he...
View ArticleCoffee Break Ennui, Cured
ShareI once worked for a place that mandated a group coffee break every Friday. When the time came, we’d file from our cubicles into the conference room and sit around a massive U-shaped table. Someone...
View ArticleNews at Elevenses
ShareIn the many years since our revolution, we Americans have turned our backs on so many British influences—the royalty and pageantry, big hats and bows, pearls and plaids, clotted cream and smoked...
View ArticleAfternoon Delight
ShareThere are times in life when, for brief moments, everything seems perfect in the world. One of those times, for me, was one late summer afternoon on my honeymoon, sitting on the upstairs patio of...
View ArticleReinventing the Radish
ShareIf you grow your own vegetables, have a CSA, or shop at a farmer’s market, you’ve already experienced the seasonal abundance of radishes. You’ve done all you can imagine to use them up. You’ve...
View ArticleA Slice of Down Under
ShareWhen I heard about slice, the sweet snacks common to Australia and New Zealand, I was intrigued. Slice is, apparently, ubiquitous to life there. Children eat slice in packed lunches or after...
View ArticleGrandma’s Grown-Up Cake
ShareThe summer of 1982, when I was 12, I did not do “quite as many things as I did the last” according to the annual report my parents made me write before school started again. But “I did a lot of...
View ArticleNo Whey!
ShareI have a great deal of appreciation for yogurt. Many of my childhood memories involve bewilderingly shaped Yoplait containers filled to the brim with sickly sweet fruit-flavored dairy solids. As a...
View ArticleParty Animals
ShareI’ll admit it. When I moved into my new apartment this year, along with my sheets, coffee mugs, and suitcase, I toted along a value-sized tub of animal crackers. It was the kind you could find at...
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