The weather has been looking up lately. Lots of days with nice sun, not too hot, have made me start to think about day trips I can take just to soak it all in. My husband always jokes with me that I’m like a Neapolitan mother because whenever we go anywhere I always pack lots…
April 25th is ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day in Australia and New Zealand. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War, and is a day of national remembrance of the military campaign and those who have fallen in…
I hope it’s safe to say that spring is here or really truly just around the corner for most of our readers in the northern hemisphere. We’ve been squeezing the last little bits of winter from our past few recipes. And now I thought it would be nice to highlight some of our most popular…
This week’s recipe for a ginger and orange spiced teacake, by food creative and cookbook author Rachel Khoo, is perfect for those of you who live in places where winter is lingering longer than usual. It is a fancy version of the American poundcake, with the addition of ginger and orange zest which provides a…
This week’s recipe for a Pecan Salty Caramel Tart comes from blogger and cookbook author Ellise Pierce, also known as the Cowgirl Chef. Ellise mixes elements of Texan and French cuisines to make her own fusion cooking. The pecan salty caramel tart draws on the pecan from her home state and the tart, a cornerstone of…
In celebration of Black History Month, for the past three weeks I’ve chosen recipes that remind me of my home in a black family from the South in the United States. I realize that the recipes have been so incredibly rich that they can’t be regular staples. I purposely let our cholesterol run wild so I…
This week’s recipe comes from Devita Davison, founder of The Southern Pantry, an online purveyor of small-batch locally produced artisanal foods specializing in southern cooking. Devita’s family, like mine, is from Alabama, and we both grew up with grandparents who had their own livestock and small animals as well as a full garden and fruit…
This week’s recipe comes from someone who doesn’t have an internet presence at all. Mamie Patton was a family friend of my aunt and her family for several years, which is how I was fortunate enough to enjoy her delicious food. Growing up in an African American family in the South, there were some foods that…
Cheryl Day’s Back in the Day Bakery is one of my favorite “one day I’m going to drive to that bakery” dream destinations. Cheryl is one of the first people I thought about when I saw Black History Month coming around the bend. She has shared her blackened shrimp tacos and baked peach hand pies…
This week’s recipe by pizza enthusiast Elana Iaciofano rekindled my love for making pizza at home. Even though I made Elana’s Roasted Chestnut and Pyrénées Brebis Pizza with the wrong cheeses, I used a new flour that was amazing and that I felt totally compensated for my cheese error. (I’m a total convert now and will…
This week, we’re super lucky to have a recipe for Fried Apple Pies with Salted Caramel Glaze by Emily and Elizabeth at the Nothing-in-the-House Baking Company. The recipe appears in their first book, Pie: A Hand Drawn Almanac, just out now, but as a treat, we have new illustrations. The recipe appears typed and hand…
I met photographer and creative director Pauline Boldt virtually after we worked on the same photography project here in Rome. We didn’t meet during the project; maybe we saw each other and never knew who the other was. When I finished my part, I went to the Slow Food Salone del Gusto in Piedmont, and Pauline…
This week’s recipe is from Matt and Renato at Baked. I learned about Baked when Grace visited Matt and Renato in their bakery a few years ago and produced this video. I was curious about their recipes and got their beautiful book, made a chocolate cake from it for my office and gained superstar status….
If there were a way to put the title of this week’s recipe in flashing neon capital letters, I would have. I am always excited about the recipes we feature on the column, but every so often, I am so excited that I just want to run around knocking on everybody’s door to say, “Don’t…
This autumn has been a season of exciting cookbook releases: Nigel Slater, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, Yvette van Boven, Katie Quinn Davies, Kevin Gillespie and this week’s recipe contributor, Aran Goyoaga, are but a few of the authors with books that I’ve been waiting for since last year! Aran is one of the In the Kitchen…
We’re getting a jump-start on the holidays with this week’s recipe. Dutch illustrator and food stylist Yvette van Boven shares a luxurious gingerbread, the fancy version of the traditional loaf which appears in her most recent book, Home Made Winter. Personally, gingerbread in all its international forms is one of my favorite winter treats. Yvette’s version seems…
This week’s recipe for a Blueberry Cake comes from Susan Schwake of artstream studios in Rochester, New Hampshire. I like to tease Susan about living in a little cabin in the big woods and about getting all of her provisions from Nelly’s general store. (Those of you who ever read the book or watched Little…
WOW. Summer just flew by. I can’t say it went particularly fast because it was so hot every day and from so early on that all I’ve done since is ask when the heat will be over! It is finally a normal summer temperature where I live (with no end in sight), but you can still…
This week’s recipe is by graphic designer and cookbook author Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack. Yvette, together with her sister and mother, has spent the past few years documenting and collecting her family’s recipes in order to produce an authentic Mexican cookbook. The end result is a beautifully photographed collection of recipes, which will be released this autumn…
It’s blackberry season again, and we have another great, easy recipe to use up the blackberries you may collect in the wild or buy at your favorite produce outlet. This recipe for a Blackberry Balsamic Pie with Sea Salt Walnut Crumble comes from food stylist and creator of PieBox, Adrienne Blumthal. I was attracted to…
