Last night, Andrew, Jessica, Annie, and I made ravioli, stretching pasta sheets until you could see through them with sautéed mushrooms, asparagus, garlic, and parmesan: Sprinkled with Hawaiian red salt and feathered with chives, the cooked ravioli rested in a butter sauce. I realized when taking the picture below that the chives had fallen in [...]

The biscuits were baking, the jam cooling, and the bacon sputtering yesterday morning, for brunch (not Grease, though the bacon rendered plenty) was the word—brunch was the time, was the place, was the motion; brunch was the way we were feeling. A small group of the leading lights in digital innovation filled the magic cottage [...]

The ultimate comfort food? Aligot. Traditionally almost equal parts potato puree and Tomme cheese (joined in elasticity), I like to take mashed potatoes in this direction, adding garlic and Tomme/Raclette to Yukon Golds, stirring with figure eight motions. This Thanksgiving side deserves a place in your dinner rotation all year. I’ll be making this for [...]

Voilà, the project I have been working on these few months at the Knight Foundation: KnightPulse.org, a place to discuss the future of information—to talk about new ways to give, share, find, and receive information we need. We’re posting video conversations to start off, and we’ll build tools the community wants next. All mistakes are [...]

On Friday night, I was transfixed listening to Dave Brubeck coaxing jazz with his unique time signatures from a piano on stage right—at 88, he riffs playfully, hunched over at first, then gracefully moving from one end of the keys to the other— And I woke up this morning thinking about what I might be [...]