It’s here! A new year that brings with it hope, inspiration, and stretchy pants; elastic waistbands may be a necessary comfort after all the heavy meals I’ve been indulging in over the holidays, but so too are the annual year-in-review lists that tend to get published as we transition into a new calendar. Come January […]

I’ve used this blog before to sound off on my views about processed food products, but now I’m coming at ya with an outcry to save one of the great real foods on the planet. My foodie philosophy is pretty straightforward: eat seasonal real foods from local sources, whenever you can find ‘em and afford […]

I may be a chef and a foodie, but one of my favorite meals has always been bread and butter. Though I was not a finicky child, on those nights that our family ate “grown up food” I would be allowed, assuming I’d at least tried my meal and finished enough of the vegetables, to […]

I’m a political junkie, but politicians make me crazy! This is the second time on this blog that I’ve been stirred to words in response to an article on cupcakes I’ve read in The New York Times. The first incidence of my incendiary defense of the cupcake came back in September 2007 when I read […]

It’s time for lunch. Or rather, it’s time to reform the school lunch program in this country. On Fat Tuesday, it’s apropos to direct you to my favorite celebrity chef at his recent TED Prize winning speech, wherein he announces that in the 18 minutes it will take for him to deliver said speech, 4 […]