Once a week, you’ll be getting some random thoughts straight from my brain to the page. It might be about restaurants we’ve tried, events we crashed … er… got invited to, travel tips, books we are reading (or want to read) or our plans to run away to New Zealand.…
When you do a lot of the cooking it is always nice when you get a request from your wife. As it happens, this doesn’t happen nearly enough. I always feel like I am scrounging for ideas and I am not nearly as efficient and creative as Lydia is. So…
I dream of a future where I have time to thoughtfully compose my daily menu over a cup of jasmine tea. As I contemplate the best of the season with a little prayer to the kitchen gods, I imagine embarking on my daily pilgrimage to the various small markets to…
Fall is in the air, but it is the tail end of the summer stone fruit season. I do everything in my power to cling to summer and that means bottling up both my summer memories and summer plums. These beauties are at their peak right now and I had…
I have a recipe box – old, ugly, scratched and stuffed full. It would make an Instagrammer cringe with how non-photogenic it is, and it in no way reflects my deep inner philosophy of the soul of food. Or my sense of personal style. Or whatever. Oh, and it’s a…
foodist – (noun) 1. A person who is very interested in food (emphasis added) 2. A person who is interested in foodism I am really an accidental food type. Food has been a consistent background melody in my life. I have one of those close-knit families (the kind that is…