Jul 26, 2024
One of my greatest quiet joys is cooking from a well-written cookbook on a weekend night, music on the bluetooth and new scents and tastes filling the kitchen. My favorite cookbook that I’ve cooked from this year is Latinisimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Country of Latin America by Sandra Gutierrez. Sweeping in...
Jul 5, 2024
Over more than half a century as an editor at Knopf, Judith Jones became a legend, nurturing future literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. But although I was an English major, I first learned of Judith Jones years later, when I realized that Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden,...
Feb 18, 2022
Sheri Castle was born in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, and she’s always been at home in the kitchen and the garden out its back door. She wrote her first recipe at age 4, studied English at The University of North Carolina, and through the years has combined her passion and knowledge for cooking with an...
Feb 19, 2021
There is plenty of food content out there. I know, of course, because I am making some of it, but also because I’m reading a lot of it, and a lot of it is vacuous, shallow, and sometimes downright incorrect. But there is also so much good thinking and good writing about food out there, and one such writer/content...
Sep 11, 2020
How I think about food has evolved over the years, and that’s changed how I cook as well. These three Charleston folks: Ann Marshall of High Wire Distillery, Kevin Johnson of The Grocery, and Bob Cook of Edmund’s Oast, are some that inspired me onto my current path of eating local, cooking better, and practice...