You may not be thinking this now, but with this stash of hangover fixes both tempting and therapeutic, you can snatch hope from failure, triumph from despair. Milton Crawford explains.
Essays
Crêpes for La Chandeleur
Crêpes are all the rage on La Chandeleur, the annual French celebration of the humble-noble treat. Festivities, games, and, of course, much crêpe eating ensue.
I Am Not Your Exotic
Writer Kim Sunée shares her experience of both losing and finding herself in cooking during the last couple decades and especially the last year.
In Search of Kitchen Blessings
Grace Young divulges her tipsy Chinese New Year tradition, one that she has no intention of changing. Perhaps we all should start to incorporate it into our Lunar New Year celebrations.
10 Life Lessons Learned in the Kitchen
Cooking as metaphor for life? Absolutely. Here’s a look at 10 lessons shared by a restaurateur who’s been experiencing missteps and miracles in the kitchen for decades.
How to Skip Thanksgiving (But Not the Giving Thanks Part)
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.
Comfort Me With Doughnuts
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.
The (Essential) French Bistro
An unabashedly biased look at what makes the classic and iconic bistro such an essential–and quintessential–sanctuary.
Why I Love “In The Night Kitchen”
A charming look at the classic children’s book by Maurice Sendak and how its lessons linger well into adulthood.
A Grandmother’s Love
The charming story of a doting Jewish grandmother and how she saw to it that her granddaughter was never hungry for love.
And You Thought Your Family Was Crazy
Relatives. Mayheim. Envy. Dirty dishes. Inappropriateness. You’ll find it all here. (And you thought YOUR family was crazy.)
I’ve Always Wanted To Be Jewish
Ever hear of religion envy? Mary Giuliani’s got it bad. Here she tells about her struggles in not being born Jewish.
Sheet Pan Suppers
Some nights—most nights—you’d give darn near anything to summon dinner with just a single pan. Here’s how.
The Jewish Food of My Childhood
The late Joan Rivers indulges us with her inimitable, opinionated, and fond way of seeing the food of her childhood.
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good
Some things don’t make sense at the time but later seem perfectly in place. Kat Flinn explains in her memoir.
Little Cabinet of Horrors
You haven’t experienced horror until you’ve confronted the inside of a spice cabinet or spice drawer after a decade of neglect.
My Fishing Trophy
Girls like to fish, too, you know. Sometimes they even win fishing contests and shame the menfolk in their families. Just sayin’.
How to Be Fat
Augusten Burroughs refers to this essay of his as “How to Be Fat.” We prefer to think of it as “How to Be Beautiful.”
My Fig-Thieving Ways
Being obsessed with fresh figs means you’ll do anything to satisfy your insatiable appetite for them. Well, almost anything.
Food Freedom
We have a different sort of recipe for celebrating Independence Day. And it’s all about many of us celebrate freedom through food.