At the Dane County Farmers Market around the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find a lot of local cheese, as you can imagine. One of them is a bit of a delicious spectacle: Brunkow Cheese draws a crowd around a large vendor tent, where folks line up, toothpicks in hand, to skewer samples…
Chinese Chives on Everything
My farmer friend calls them Chinese chives. She’s from China, so she would know. She sells them in painfully cheap bunches that I collect like firewood each week and stack in the fridge next to the eggs. Nancy’s Chinese chives are bigger than any chives I’ve known. About 14 inches long, they get wider and…
A Seafood Dinner in the Greek Islands
There is a category of recipes that I make that I lovingly refer to as “dream dishes.” Dream dishes, to me, are ones that transport us to another time or place. When we’re really lucky, the mere smell of a certain dish can take our senses on a trip to a dream destination. When I…
An Ode to Zin
Younger people (under age 45?) say zinfandel is a dark red wine that’s bold, brash, thickly rich, soft, and sweet-ish; that has slightly Port-y aromas and high alcohol content; and that should be sipped immediately after release by itself. Food is optional. Older people (over age 60?) tell you zinfandel ought to be a medium-weight…
A Perfect Work-From-Home Lunch
I work from home, and while it’s how I’ve always worked, it still presents a few challenges. Namely, structure and discipline. One trick I rely on is to schedule a lunch break. Easy to say, but the ritual of leaving the desk, moving into another room, and, most important, stepping away from the screen, can…
The Family Table: Sorrel Soup, Slick and Sour, Pieced Together From Scraps of Memory
Submitted by Emma Buls, Duluth, Minnesota I never knew I had a sour tooth until I ate sorrel soup. It was at a lunch at my Aunt Lidia’s house, in a breezy beach community hugging Port Phillip Bay, south of Melbourne. I was around 8 years old, and at this point in our lives my…
Pure Rhubarb Jam Is the Best Way to Stretch the Season
Growing up in a small town in the Midwest, we neighbor kids were quite familiar with the odd celery-like stalk with an enormous leaf at the end of it. Rhubarb lined one side of a neighbor’s house like decorative landscaping. We’d break off a shaft of it and dip it in a cup of sugar…
Kid-Friendly Meatballs Get the Whole Family Involved in Cooking Dinner
For a new spin on meatballs, add basil pesto for big flavor. The pesto replaces the minced herbs, minced garlic, and grated cheese in standard meatball recipes. Buy pesto from the refrigerated section of the supermarket—it has a fresher flavor than the jarred pesto sold in the grocery aisles. This kid-friendly recipe is easy to…
Creative Mom Comes Up With a Genius Hack to Get Her Son to Eat Fruits and Vegetables
A creative mother has come up with a genius way for making her son eat his vegetables: by turning them into food art. Diana Gonzalez, 36, her husband, Paul, 40, and her son George, 4, are from Mexico but have been living in Lancashire, England, for the last one year, after going over to visit family…
On Rainy Spring Days, Make Korean Pancakes
When I was little, I always looked forward to the rain. Rainy days meant one thing to me: pajeon, a crispy Korean scallion pancake, often loaded with meat or seafood. My mom would get out her old, dented, red electric griddle pan, plug it in, and drizzle it generously with oil. She would crank up…
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