I have had any number of anxieties about cooking, but what many of them boiled down to is this: the fear that I would cook something, and it wouldn’t taste… Continue Reading

My partner Megan is a librarian, and one of the goals of librarians like herself is to teach something called information literacy. Information literacy is the ability to critically analyze… Continue Reading

An idiom I learned from my family is that “Some people eat live, while others live to eat.” In some formulations, its a critique of those who are overindulgent. Within… Continue Reading

I have never had my own kitchen. I have lived with my parents, lived in a dormitory with a group kitchen, and lived in a series of group homes with… Continue Reading

There’s one major downside I can identify to devoting your time stealing from the chefs you admire and the recipes you love: that all too human urge to form comparisons…. Continue Reading

There’s an entire class of cookbooks that exist purely to serve as décor. The next time you’re looking at a cookbook, look at the glossiness of the pages, the size… Continue Reading

Long ago, after my mother and her sisters had moved out of theirs parents’ home, my Gram, their mother, gifted them small boxes, each with dozens of handwritten note cards…. Continue Reading