What, you thought we drank water with all of that great food? Vermouth We've never given much thought to vermouth. For us, it's mostly just that thing you put in a Manhattan. The idea of actually drinking vermouth just never really occurred to us. But we became obsessed with it in Spai...

Thanks everybody, for your comments on Comfort me with Apples. I have to admit that when I started reading comments on Amazon like, "I wouldn't want my children to know this woman," I was taken aback. But then the sixties, seventies, pre-Aids world was a very different place. On to Garlic and ...

A Taste of the Past I love revisiting the cookbooks I used growing up. They shaped me as much as any novel, and flipping through the sauce-splotched pages takes me back, makes me remember long-forgotten dishes. But dusting off the Time-Life Foods of the World books is an entirely different e...

A Wood for the Wise People who obsess about barbecue are in a class by themselves. Blessed with patience, they spend endless hours standing by slow fires, waiting for meat to soak up the fine scent of smoke. They worry about every detail along the way, but their two main concerns are meat...

A Bitten Word Recipe We just returned from four days in Tennessee, visiting Zach's family. We had a great time! We rented kayaks and spent a lazy day on a (very mild) river. We toured the George Dickel whisky distillery in Zach's hometown and had a lot of great down-time just catching up with ...

As you might remember, visiting a food magazine test kitchen is something that's been on our list of Culinary Resolutions for two years now. Last Friday, we finally had the opportunity to make that resolution a reality. Where'd we go? We'll let this photo do to talking: Yep! We were fortunate...