the whole plate.

“the whole issue.”

fage total.

A couple weeks ago, I stopped into Whole Foods for a box of granola.  While snaking my way to the checkout line, I spotted a yellow sign above their store of Fage: a sale.

This never happens.  Chobani goes on sale.   Oikos gets marked down.  Brown Cow taunts with [...]

“junk food.”

roasted green beans with salt and vinegar.

I grew up in a potato chip-free household.  It was also a sugared cereal-free household, a packaged cookie-free household, and a frozen entree-free household.

The no-junk-food rule had a few exceptions, of course, saved for rare, very special occasions.  Sleepovers with my best friend meant [...]

“autumnal acceptance.”

honeycrisp and ginger gold apples.

I tend to confront the end of summer with a rather mournful state of mind.  The sun is setting earlier; the temperature is finished getting warmer.  Cherries and strawberries have disappeared from markets, and berries follow soon after.  Beach season has ended, and the concepts of winter coats and snowstorms [...]

“the new year.”

apples and honey; raw vegetables; round challah.

Three years past “back to school” days, September still feels like a new start to me. Perhaps it’s the change in the season, the need to create some excitement out of the months ahead while summer comes to a close. Perhaps it’s nostalgia, a way [...]

Let’s do a quick throwback to college:

This was one party that my roommate and I threw our senior year of college.  Yes, as students, we donned dresses, drank from wine glasses, and topped our tables with fine Italian pastries.  Yes, NYU is a strange place.  And yes, I have little to add to [...]