Latkes, Darling
Well, the Times agrees: babka is worth the effort, just like I wroteabout the other day. The crumbs from my efforts have long since been …
Of Babka and the Cold North
[Babka for Thanksgiving, November 2007.] Poised on the last day of November for the quick slip-side into the madness of the season (for me, the …
Giving Thanks (and Pear Cake)
[Bodega Head, December 2006.] Each year on Thanksgiving I can’t help but reflect on the things for which I’m particularly grateful. Today, I feel very …
Weekend Snaps
[Sun at Limantour, November 2007] Today is a day heavy on the coffee because I woke up early this morning to talk to NPR a …
All Hallows
Round about the cauldron go;In the poison’d entrails throwToad, that under cold stoneDays and nights has thirty-oneSwelter’d venom sleeping got,Boil thou first i’ the charmed …
We Should All Eat More Cake
Shouldn’t we? For it is comfort and light and sweetness and heft all wrapped up tidily (or messily, depending on preference) into a delicious-smelling packet. …
October in the City
Green afternoon serene and bright, along my street you sail awaySun-dappled like a ship of light that glints upon a rippled bay …And all those …
Challah’s Back!
The holidays have come and gone, and a half-loaf of my challah bread remains, frozen solid for consumption as French toast some weekend morning. Anyway, …
Food for the Times
[Banana loaf, September 2007] Six years ago the world collapsed and turned into itself, and nothing has been the same since. Can it really be …
An Apple Pie Kind of Day
Nicole’s Apple Pies Originally uploaded by pixelrandy Today seems like a day John Steinbeck would have loved — it is cloudy with drifting fog and …