Apparently it is Feed My Parents Scraps Month, but luckily so far, no one is complaining.
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Preservation, or a tale of two shrubs
Ripe, jewel-toned berries. Vinegar. Sugar. A little heat.More
Food Bloggers against Hunger, II
A couple of months ago, New York Times dining writer and Cassoulet contributor Jeff Gordinier, hosted a screening and Times Talk about the new documentary, A Place at the Table. More
Contributor Spotlight: Dani Klein Modisett
It’s one of the most common tropes of childhood eating, the kid who will only eat white food. Lisa’s son did it briefly, and as a child, my brother wouldn’t tolerate soy sauce on his rice, only table salt. What do you do with kids like that? Do you just wait it out, trusting that eventually they’ll want some color in their meals? Do you stuff them with vitamins? Do you sneak spinach into their brownies? More
Contributor Spotlight: Elizabeth Crane
Liz and I like to tell the story of how we met, twenty years ago, when I first moved to San Francisco and interviewed for a job as an office assistant at the translation agency Liz managed. At the end of the interview — in which we mostly talked about our favorite books and poetry — she gave me a math test to see if I could accurately estimate the cost of translation jobs. I was off by a factor of 100. But Liz still hired me, figuring that a calculator could compensate for my mathematical deficiencies, and that interesting office conversation is priceless.More