Posts under ‘Food’

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 the [...]

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.
While [...]

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 who [...]

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 [...]

Note: This is reblogged from BlogHer, where it appeared yesterday. But I wanted to share this with those of you who don’t read me over there.
I have spent a good portion of my life trying to balance out time for creative work and time for work that actually pays the bills, fitting in [...]

I have friends all over the place, most of whom I’ve met the old-fashioned way: in person, through some job or school or work or networking connection. But oh, how the Internet has enriched my life and brought me in touch with people who, otherwise, I might never have met.
Yeah, I’m pretty much going to [...]

“There’s a restaurant downtown I think you’d like,” said my friend Amy when I visited her in Madison, Wis. last week.
Oh my friends, how they know me. Amy was, of course, totally right, and that is how we ended up at Harvest, a small, warm space on the square that features the state capitol, for [...]

Over the weekend, I went in a giant grocery store in Madison, Wisconsin with my friends in search of some local cheese curds. We found what we were looking for, but since it has been so long since I regularly shopped at that kind of store, the aisles and aisles of brightly-colored boxes of processed [...]

I bought sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, but in the crush of food that me and my fantastic guests made and brought, they became superfluous, which means I’m now managing a sweet potato surplus. Earlier this week, I started dispatching them using a great recipe for Soy-Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Sesame Seeds I found on my [...]

A few weeks ago, I made and froze my first-ever potpie. On a day when I had some particularly thorny budget issues to work on, I took some of the leftovers to the office with me. After all, there are times when a girl just knows she’s going to need some comfort food midway through [...]