I think chestnuts look tribal in their protective cupule. Walking the Chicago Green City Market on Saturday, I saw chestnuts, striped turkish eggplants, and the elusive famed yellow beets. Passing up crêpes (skillyfully made below), I opted for plummy bread pudding and butternut squash pie (both good Thanksgiving dessert ideas). The fractal cauliflower seemed to [...]

It begins with the pink panther theme from across a Chicago intersection. I went up the L platform to meet my friend Brian, a groovy cat himself, and off we went to Pilsen, a Chicago area with notable Mexican food, in a city of very notable Mexican food. Passing the rainbow building, we went to [...]

I thought some of you might be interested in a talk I gave today on behalf of Knight Foundation. This morning, my colleague Robertson Adams recorded my presentation of the News Challenge Garage (the incubator site I helped build for the Knight News Challenge contest to fund innovative digital news delivery ideas) at the Communications [...]

Last year about this time, Dana and I picked apples at Carter Mountain (more from that adventure at the bottom of this post), and so it’s applesauce I’m craving right now in Miami, where the leaves don’t change. Spiked with cinnamon, and topped with macerated pluots, the kthread version can be taken further (toast some [...]

The lily below, from the pond out in front of the magic cottage, is now my computer wallpaper. As I have a peculiar habit of changing the wallpaper every few days, I thought I’d share with you a set of Flickr photos that are in rotation on my monitors (I’ll continue to update this set [...]