Posts under ‘Food’

The Unicorn has lots of lovable qualities, but among them is this: He is a fantastic giver of gifts. He is not a fan of the gift list—he’d much rather pay attention to the recipient, think hard about something they would love to have but would never buy for themselves, and then give them that. [...]

This week, I succumbed in a big way to my annual pomegranate binge. I can’t get enough of the tangy, juicy seeds, which are only in season for the next month or two. I mostly throw them into salads, but I have been known to stand at the kitchen counter, storage container of harvested seeds [...]

I have a love-not-love relationship with soup. Sometimes I would be happy to eat it for days in a row, and sometimes I have no patience for it. Soup, after all, can’t really be eaten quickly. The spoon is a finite vessel: It holds what it holds, and forces the eater to go bite by [...]

Back when I lived in DC, long before I ever thought about gardening, I spent a fair amount of time running up and down I-95 in the summer to Orioles games. I have a long family history with the team, one too long to get into here, and they will, no matter how long they [...]

One of my favorite stands at the Jack London Square Farmers’ Market in Oakland is the Happy Boy Farms stand. That’s where I almost always buy my salad greens, and usually a whole bagful of whatever else they have available at the moment. Sunday was no exception. I stopped by to get some arugula for [...]

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared Monday on BlogHer, but in case you’re not a BlogHer reader, I wanted to make sure you were aware of this year’s Hunger Challenge effort! For the third year in a row, the San Francisco Food Bank has launched the Hunger Challenge, a week-long opportunity for bloggers and others [...]

Editor’s Note: This post appeared earlier this week on BlogHer, but since I’m headed to the Iowa State Fair this weekend, I thought it was most appropriate to point you in its direction. The first time I visited the Iowa State Fair, I arrived armed with an annotated map. My friend Leah, whose father is [...]

Last night, Fatemeh assigned me the job of side dishes to go with pork chops. Roasted fingerlings, I decided, and roasted green beans tossed with preserved rangpur lime, because in the Bay Area, summer is so damn chilly and foggy that it’s quite normal to be able to roast up some vegetables a la winter. [...]

The KFC Double Down might be simple blasphemy, or just a sign that the apocalypse is nigh. Were the Four Horsemen eating Double Downs while they rode into town? Certainly, anyone who eats more than half of one in their lifetime greatly ups their chances of dying before December 2012. I say this as someone [...]

This world? It’s a small one. I have always known this, because I started traveling the world when I was a kid, and am amazed how often my path crosses and recrosses paths of others who I’ve met along the way. Back in Iowa City, I got to know a fantastic chef named Soleil, who [...]