When I was in high school, a friend of my father's introduced us to the previously-unknown world of Spanish cooking. She brought us pael...

For all their bad rap as the source of our modern poor health, sodas can be surprisingly old-fashioned. Sure, nowadays they're pumped fu...

Sometimes cooking inspiration is easy to come by. If you have a well-stocked refrigerator and a well-developed cookbook collection (or blog-...

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of home preservation. I recently simmered some lemons into marmalade , have turned plums and apri...

From my humble corner of the kitchen world, I'm not quite sure what to make of the molecular gastronomy that's happening at top rest...

For all my love of my current home (Portland, Oregon), I must admit that California just blows my mind sometimes. A few years ago I made th...

Summer didn't really hit Portland until about 3 days ago. These last few weeks featured buckets of rain, and chilly winds that made you ...