About Renee Schettler

Curious about what the heck the ramps craze is all about? So was Renee…until a chef shared a simple approach to cooking the garlicky little leeks.

An ardent pea shoot aficionado divulges her favorite bling come spring–a simple, sprightly salad that flaunts the sweeter side of these cute, curly shoots.

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Maybe what the world needs is a single currency. Like jars of this sweet, rich, intense bacon jam that makes everything better.

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The one and only spatula that our editor in chief relies on for every kitchen use. So much so that she always keeps a spare on hand. Perhaps you should, too.

Or rather, how even the most unexpected and untraditional of Thanksgivings can still be gratitude-invoking. Renee reminds us that the day is what we make it.

There’s nothing quite like an exquisitely sweet and drippy peach to make life stand still for a moment. And we’ve got 5 simple tricks and tactics to ensure stone fruit superlativeness.

Renee Schettler explains her mom’s hunkering-down survival strategy from back in the day and how it actually had less to do with cooking and a lot more with something far simpler.

Thanks to these 100+ inspired ideas for making matzoh more enticing, perhaps this year Passover won’t seem quite long enough.

The classic martini–you know, the one sipped throughout decades past–dispenses with questions of shaken or stirred, dirty or dry. It just is what it is.

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Jonathan Gold, the only Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer, recently passed away. Renee Schettler Rossi, who edited several of his articles, remembers what made him great.