Among the many reasons I love Virginia Willis, and I kid you not, one is that she and I have an obsessive love of …
Once Upon A Story…
Vikas Khanna returns to the rivers
I have always enjoyed cooking from Chef Vikas Khanna’s cookbooks – the recipes work and provide delightful results. So I was delighted to receive a …
Can you learn to cook from a cookbook?
  During the fall of 2009, esteemed, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik wrote a piece about cookbooks. The heart of the piece focused on …
Is Fruitcake for Fruitcakes?
(Isn’t this photo AMAZING? By Sala Kannan for Life of Spice) I have this thing about fruitcakes. I hate them. I mean really truly hate …
Roses and Eggplant
My friend, the super talented writer Cheryl Tan, invited me to join a group of seasoned food bloggers. The goal of the group is to …
Bacon Lollies!
One of DC’s finest (in the food writing world) is writer Nevin Martell. I enjoy his work, his sense of humor and his classy attitude. …
Behind the Book
I am so delighted to present a terrific book:Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch & Irish Whiskey by Fred Minnick.  I …
Behind the Book: POK POK
J.J. Goode and I go back a long, long way.. ten years, at least. We both started out on eGullet, writing about our love of …
Behind the book: MELT
After spending an entire weekend cooking from Melt, The Art of Macaroni and Cheese – I have proved once and for all that there is no …
Eat Your Vegetables!
So I have to admit that I am love to eat lamb, chicken and fish but when someone like Joe Yonan writes a book about …