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.
Essays
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.
New Year’s Revolution
New Year’s resolutions. We start with good intentions to eat healthy, then by February it’s duck fat and lardons and kasha varnishkes. And that’s not a bad thing. Not at all.
Hungoevr, er, Hangover Cures
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.
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.
How Cooking Reminds You Who You Are
Bestselling author Jessica Fechtor reminds us when we seem to lose our sense of self, sometimes the answer can be found in those parts of ourselves we instinctualy express.
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.