I just came back home from school for my Christmas vacation. I’m headed to Italy, so there should be some cool new posts coming up. But this isn’t about Italy, or even…
Kirsten’s Home Cooking Adventures
Kirsten’s Home Cooking Adventures is one of those blogs that is almost entirely devoted to recipes… and I’m thankful for it. Whenever I’m not sure what to make for dinner, I head…
Comfort Food
Comfort food means different things to different people. It’s tied to memory, to home. For my father, this means spaghetti and meatballs, like his grandmother, who barely spoke English, used to make….
Pizza
My brother and father would kill me if they knew that this was my excuse for pizza: a few years ago, my father built a pizza oven in our backyard, and it…
L’Entrecôte
SCENE: Evening. You are seated at a long wooden table at a small, intimate restaurant in Paris, illuminated only by candlelight, waiting patiently for the waitress to arrive. “How would you like…
Anne’s Food
I found the recipe for these Chocolate Chai Snickerdoodles on Anne’s Food. To be fair, they’re not her recipe, but her presentation of them made me want to try. I’ve been reading…
Easy Korean Food
*Foodgasm.* I know… beautiful isn’t it? Spicy, warm, flavourful… and I made it all by myself. OK… that’s a lie. I cheated a *little* bit. What the heck do you want from…
Ginger Cookies
“Is this gingerbread?” “No.” “It looks like gingerbread…” “It’s not. It’s a cookie.” “Are you sure?” Yes… I’m sure, Michael. I baked them. They’re not gingerbread. They’re Bon Appetit’s Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice…
Arthur Avenue Market
Drool-worthy, ain’t it? This is the counter of Mike’s Deli, one of several Italian food counters at the now-infamous covered market at Arthur Avenue, in the Bronx. Only a few years ago,…
Mennonite Festival
Living in cities is amazing. Every day, there is the opportunity to see something new. Not everyone takes advantage of these opportunities; I know for a long time I didn’t, but I…