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The first meal you cook in a new kitchen feels portentous. As if the success or failure of all future culinary endeavors rests on the results of that one meal. It shouldn’t be too simple, or too fancy. You don’t want too much room for (read full article)
There seems to be this idea out there that kids will not eat vegetables. There are suggestions to disguise the vegetables as trees, or puree them and hide them in the brownies. I just don’t get it. Sure, some kids are neophobes — the (read full article)
The advent of fall is subtle here in Los Angeles. We don't get the fire of autumn leaves, serving as a beacon, or the sudden damp and chill, requiring rainboots and peacoats. We tend to put our heads down during the fires and Santa Ana winds of S (read full article)
Brussels sprouts have since become one of my favorite vegetables, with their nutty flavor. tendercrisp texture and whimsical form (my childhood of playing with dollhouses predisposes me to love miniature things). When fall comes around and I start (read full article)
Fall produce - what do you think of? Apples, of course. Brussels Sprouts. Take a page from Thanksgiving and think sweet potatoes and cranberries. And pumpkins are, of course, inescapable, their leering visages popping up everywhere you go. Althou (read full article)
I love entertaining -- planning a menu, choosing the flowers, setting the table, conversation with friends. Unfortunately, neither I nor any of my friends have the time for an actual dinner party these days. What with jobs that keep us until all (read full article)
It can't possibly be September already. Wasn't it just Easter? What happened to the Fourth of July? I was going to spend this summer at the beach (yep, still milky white here), drinking mint iced tea (I think I made one pitcher), and lounging po (read full article)
It can't possibly be September already. Wasn't it just Easter? What happened to the Fourth of July? I was going to spend this summer at the beach (yep, still milky white here), drinking mint iced tea (I think I made one pitcher), and lounging po (read full article)
It's that time of the year when people who have vegetable gardens and live close to the earth and in tune with the seasons and all that start complaining about zucchini. "I have so much zucchini!" they say. "It's coming out my ears! Won't you take (read full article)
It's that time of the year when people who have vegetable gardens and live close to the earth and in tune with the seasons and all that start complaining about zucchini. "I have so much zucchini!" they say. "It's coming out my ears! Won't you take (read full article)
It's funny how life works. We spend our entire childhoods longing to grow up, so eager to join the ranks of adulthood that we can almost taste it. To a child, the charms of being grown up are many -- driving cars, earning money, wearing fancy cl (read full article)
It's funny how life works. We spend our entire childhoods longing to grow up, so eager to join the ranks of adulthood that we can almost taste it. To a child, the charms of being grown up are many -- driving cars, earning money, wearing fancy cl (read full article)
As a child I hated lima beans. I mean, what child doesn't? They're lima beans! They're the punchline of a thousand jokes, the substance of a thousand threats, the stuff of a thousand nightmares. Look up "lima beans" in the dictionary and you wil (read full article)
As a child I hated lima beans. I mean, what child doesn't? They're lima beans! They're the punchline of a thousand jokes, the substance of a thousand threats, the stuff of a thousand nightmares. Look up "lima beans" in the dictionary and you wil (read full article)
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