It came to me in a dream the other night that I had to write a post about mashed potatoes. This was non-negotiable.…

This iconoclastic method for constructing a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich is a revelation. But isn't a PBJ one of…

Ruth Reichl:"There's all this pessimism that people aren't going to cook...I just don't believe that...That people…

As we gird our loins for the Post-Recession frontier, we're all taking to the canner. Luckily, some of us nerds have…

For months, we've been getting tips about this mysterious retro concoction known as "Jezebel sauce or,…

Fad diets be damned! Researchers have found that it doesn't matter what you cut back on, so long as you are counting…

"I believe in food and sex; I believe in food then sex; food and sex together? I'm always deeply disturbed by people…

Says one killjoy in today's New York Times, "Cooking is chemistry, and the only way to know for sure is to employ…

Today someone writes into the Philadelphia Inquirer's advice column, "Ask Amy," to ask how to deal with her…

Bon Appetit just released their end-of-year list of the "Hottest Food Trends of 2009!" And, thanks to the economy,…

We know what we're whipping up this weekend: a big batch of "Jezebel Sauce." The concoction is made up of apple…

Lately, "cooking for one" is "a hot topic" that food magazines and cookbooks are covering with patronizing gusto. A…

There's a piece in the Times today that I found kind of depressing: apparently calorie-counting, the hallmark of 80s…

FYI: You like meat. But you kind of feel bad about it, so menus have to trick you into ordering it. Oh, and you're…

"So let there be no more loose talk — especially not now, with summer arriving — about beer not being essential.…

Yesterday's post equating Barack Obama embarrassing his daughter Malia with his firm handshakes of her ten-year-old…

Remember that deputy Prime Minister who resigned two years ago with Tony Blair only to resurface a year and a half…

Breakfast is my favorite meal, perhaps because it's the only meal I remember to eat every day, and every day I have…

I've never been a fan of "foodie-ism" or really, any cultural movement that muddles art/commerce/housework to the…

Dear Leslie, Congrats on the publication of your essay In Defense Of Saccharin in the Black Warrior Review. You're a…