a potluck for the amateur gourmet.

When I was younger, I remember watching my mom prepare meals each evening, imagining that she had always intuitively known how to cook. It seemed like a skill that one was born with, and as the wife of a husband who loved to eat, mother of two growing daughters, and [...]

brown bagging.

I can’t say I envy my mother for her responsibility in packing a school lunch for me.  With a six-year old palate that rejected most foods except pasta and bread, the task of filling a lunch box was quite the tremendous one.  While some of my classmates’ parents clearly gave up, sending them off with [...]