Food is political. That’s not a hot take; it’s just the truth. Every choice in a kitchen is a small political act. Where you buy, what you buy, who grew it, who picked it, who got paid, who got credit, who got left out of the story. Most of the time you don’t think about…
Welcome to Kitchen Disasters, which is currently empty because either I’ve been having a really good run lately or I’ve been suppressing the evidence. (Reader, it’s not the first one.) I cook a lot. I cook ambitious things. I cook unfamiliar things. I cook things that require equipment I do not own and substitute with…
For nearly a decade, I’ve designed and printed a menu for every Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner I’ve hosted. I didn’t plan to start a tradition. The first one was practical: I had a complicated meal coming together with multiple courses, multiple sides, and a couple of dishes I’d never made before. I wanted to write…
