Many, many moons ago, I was the Sugar Plum Fairy, and looking back, I’d rather have presided over midsummer’s sugar plums, glorious fruit without the tart skin of most plums, than the confection the fairy takes her name from. Yesterday morning, I simmered sugar plums and peaches in butter and honey, just the thing for [...]

“We’re out of feta, so there’s goat cheese on the beets,” he said (confirming this fact with the other two in the truck). Even better, I thought. It’s the first time I’ve noticed the Schnitzel Truck (@schnitzeltruck) in DUMBO, the area of Brooklyn where I work. A bit more subdued than the @waffletruck, and parked [...]

My friend Solana swept gracefully into my apartment last night with a bottle of red wine that (almost) bore her name—a very nice Santi Valpolicella Solane—and helped me finish rolling out fettuccine through the pasta machine I plan to use more often in Brooklyn. Catching up on her recent travels (she journeys to places like [...]

My friend Solana is coming over for dinner tonight, and I walked the Union Square Greenmarket this morning, talking with the lovely people at Evolutionary Organics who like my bright dresses as much as I like their lettuces. With squash blossoms from Evolutionary (along with lettuce), ears of corn, chantrelles, baby leeks—what would you make? [...]

I woke up this morning and rushed to the refrigerator, smiling to see the blue and pink eggs from chickens I watched peck around Emily and Jeremy’s yard this weekend next to a gallon of raw milk. Reassured the weekend in the Berkshires wasn’t all a lovely dream, I scrambled a few eggs slowly and [...]